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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a1ccfd6a7ff0dd0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada and Mesa Date: 1996/06/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160128129 references: organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Rueidiger says "I don't know about the fourth point. As far as I can see, there is only GNAT, which is available on a majority of platforms. As it is under the GPL, I am not sure, whether I can develop commercial programs with it." That there might be a problem is a common misconception, but there is none. Your program will of course include stuff from the runtime library which is the source of concern, but the entire GNAT runtime library uses a modified version of the GPL which completely eliminates such concerns. Here is the text from a typical runtime library header: -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- -- -- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- -- -- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- -- -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -- -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -- -- for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General -- -- Public License distributed with GNAT; see file COPYING. If not, write -- -- to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, -- -- MA 02111-1307, USA. -- -- -- -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this -- -- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, -- -- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be -- -- covered by the GNU General Public License. Lots of ACT's customers (in fact most or nearly all) are using GNAT to develop proprietary or even highly classified software.