Re: Corrected version Re: pragma License ?

[Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

> anon wrote:

>> Also the US legal system will not all two version of the GPL.
>
> It will be helpful if you refer your readers to references
> that they can check. Given the sentence quoted above, and
> the fact that you equate a will to licensing plus negotiable business
> contracts between specific parties, I think readers will be
> considering your claims with some doubt.
>
>
>> As for GNAT Ada. Well at the movment there are 3 version.  The top
>> of the line is the Gnat Pro, which is under the Adacore license, and
>> it is not GPL.
>
> Do you have an AdaCore contract? Many here who have had the
> pleasure of working with an AdaCore supported edition have
> stated that even the Pro edition of GNAT is GPLed. IIRC, one

And as far as I can say there is no way for it to be otherwise: GNAT
is build on gcc and gcc is GPL. No way to license GNAT under a
different license, even for AdaCore, since they don't own large parts
of the codebase.

The confusion is perhaps that they own the new runtime completely and
can license it with a linking exception with the Pro version whereas
they don't license the linking exception for the GPL version. I don't
know for sure though, wether they really do that.

> (Mac?) edition has actually become the starting point for a
> publicly available edition of GNAT (5.01w?). It has carried
> the GPL notice (that doesn't replace a contract, but anyway).


Regards -- Markus