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On Jun 18, 11:41=A0pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> As I've replied to Pascal and to someone else before, if possible, I
> would like it to be open source (this is obvious I think, I'm not to
> write a virus or a trojan) to people who wish to get the source

As I understand it, you are prepared to provide a source code
distribution under a license which does not permit redistribution.
That's not what most people would call 'open source' (I'm not saying
it's wrong, it's your code -- or it will be).

If you were writing in C and building your program for distribution
using GCC you would be just fine, because of the run-time library
exception noted above.

If you are writing in Ada and building your program for distribution
using GCC (from the FSF, and by the sound of it from MinGW as well)
you will be just fine, because of the run-time library exception.

If you are writing in Ada and building your program for distribution
using GNAT GPL from AdaCore, you are stuffed because they have
actively removed the run-time library exception.

So, write in Ada and build your program for distribution using GCC.
Job done.