Re: Ada Stuff and some confusion

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <DZaz6.680858$U46.21137650@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>, Mark Lundquist
says...
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>Marin David Condic <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in message
>news:9ai8dp$cm2$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
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>> GNAT/GPL: You really need a lawyer for this one
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>Yeah... (sigh), since Dewar isn't around these days I guess he'd have to
>settle for a lawyer :-) :-) :-)

The GPL really isn't that tough to read and figure out. Just approach it the way
you would approach reading someone else's code to figure out what's going on. 

In Gnat's case, in general you can use whatever license you want in your own
code, as long as you aren't actually using the source code for the compiler
itself in your product. If you are working for a company, you should by all
means run things by the corporate attorney. However, any licensing problems they
find should probably be treated as "bugs" and reported to ACT. :-)

Note that to achieve this affect, not all of Gnat's sources are under the GPL.
Many of the packages that would commonly be "with"ed by users have a set of
exceptions to the GPL listed in their header files (we commonly term this the
Gnat-Modified GPL, or GMGPL).

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