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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126774252.966025.283640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126774578.526509.159960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2202138.fOMkUmLaHt@linux1.krischik.com> <87zmqe855m.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <87zmqe855m.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:33:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1126823599 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:33:19 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:33:19 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4765 Date: 2005-09-15T22:33:19+00:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu wrote: > [1] I think that AdaCore is wrong in saying that you can only > develop GPL software with GNAT GPL 2005. My understanding is that > if you distribute a binary compiled with GNAT GPL 2005, your > program licence has to be *compatible* with the GPL. See > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html You *can* take source code with a GPL-compatible license, such as the X11 license, link it with a GPL library, such as those of the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, and distribute the resulting binary, *but* the binary you distribute will be GPL-licensed. This is because the X11 license is GPL-compatible but the GPL isn't X11-compatible. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu