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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-08 16:39:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:01:06 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> <3C6312FF.D2FABFC5@easystreet.com> <3C632525.9080001@telepath.com> <3C634BAD.AE1448B5@easystreet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1013180468 13995 136.170.200.133 (8 Feb 2002 15:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Feb 2002 15:01:08 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19807 Date: 2002-02-08T15:01:08+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Al Christians" wrote in message news:3C634BAD.AE1448B5@easystreet.com... > > 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? >