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: 103376,5efeb51ce0b50b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!207.115.63.142.MISMATCH!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition References: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:03:43 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126631023 147.24.111.90 (Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:03:43 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:03:43 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4618 Date: 2005-09-13T10:03:43-07:00 List-Id: Santiago Urue�a wrote: > I've just seen this at AdaCore's Libre site, and it seems it will be > released very, very soon!: > > http://libre.adacore.com/gpl_notice.html > > In my opinion this is great news for the entire Ada community, and not > only for Free-software developers. Interesting. In the past, AdaCore's public releases were suitable for producing non-GPL SW. I wonder if "This new Edition will provide Free Software developers, that is developers that distribute their work under the GPL" means the runtime and libraries will be GPL, rather than GMGPL, forcing the resulting executables to be GPL. -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com