Re: FSF libgnat

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Samuel Tardieu" <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote in message
news:87slup5l30.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net...
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> In particular, (iii) imposes heavy constraints on the license you can
> choose for your own software. For example, you may not authorize
> decompilation of your software, even if you indicate the addresses
> corresponding to your code (to prevent Microsoft code from being
> decompiled), because your whole executable must have terms as least as
> protective as the Microsoft components you use.

So far as I know, "redistributables" are various Microsoft DLLs that you can
include with your programs. It's never necessary to include these (most
Windows systems have the ones you need); we don't include any of them with
Janus/Ada for instance, and even using Claw it's unlikely that you'd need
anything not included with all versions of Windows.

I don't recall there being any separate runtime license (although I haven't
read any recent licenses for this information). But I'm not a lawyer...

                      Randy Brukardt.