From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,81ad2a544a72a777 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.megapath.net!news.megapath.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:08:58 -0500 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <87irvuejhc.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87ek6iecj2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <2Pe5f.148604$dP1.506527@newsc.telia.net> <871x2973q0.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <87slup5l30.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Subject: Re: FSF libgnat Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:12:59 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4952.2800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4952.2800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.32.209.38 X-Trace: sv3-clSFSxWcHkpU3nF8sf1ZMBID9gfniKeJ7EzIVZsZlwkKi6mWEei4x8Fz/zftU9gyu1of06LukyRBxYD!dOpiuja3Stpgns0nHXplghQUaWaldDfDQrcy3N445T+V0NumbgwUP87jyqXEplt6ytZS6PdktU/E X-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5945 Date: 2005-10-25T18:12:59-05:00 List-Id: "Samuel Tardieu" wrote in message news:87slup5l30.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net... ... > 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.