Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

The policy in the past has been that building a program with GNAT as the
compiler should not, in and of itself, make that program fall under the GPL
or any other license except that of your own choosing. That has been stated
here in one way or another before. I can't think of any reason they would
change that policy. But of course you'd have to check with ACT to get some
sort of "Official" statement to that effect. I doubt they'd try to change
that policy unannounced with 3.14p.

MDC
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"Al Christians" <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote in message
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>
> If some brain-dead user (say, for example, someone like me) just writes
> and compiles some Ada with gnatmake and gets an execuatable (eg for
> Windows), is he yet (as of 3.14p) pretty safe in figuring that the
> executable falls under the exception? Is there any library code that
> doesn't follow the exception?  Will the answer to this change with the
> new GNAT versions that are more closely integrated with the rest of
> gcc?
>