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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-18 07:27:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!atlantis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: Szymon Guz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why ada is so unpopular ? Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:23:38 +0100 Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl/ Message-ID: References: <49cbf610.0401170627.79c3dfe5@posting.google.com> <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.skynet.org.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nemesis.news.tpi.pl 1074439739 16878 195.116.185.50 (18 Jan 2004 15:28:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:28:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4532 Date: 2004-01-18T16:23:38+01:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > My understanding of Gtk - at least in its Ada incarnation GtkAda - was > that it is licensed such that an application that calls it is not > subject to the GPL license. Should one modify the library itself, those > changes would naturally be covered by the GPL, but to simply use it as a > GUI interface would not require you to put your app under the GPL. Am I > wrong about this? > > MDC > yea, you're right.. I've checked that and for suer it the LGPL licence: "GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties." http://gtk.org/faq/#AEN81