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,f6ad09be517b338c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: LGPL Requirements (was: Selecting Ada95 compiler for MSDOS realtime application) Date: 1996/11/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195474832 references: <55rs5t$2a3@nw101.infi.net> <55ufo9$2ar@nw101.infi.net> <55v2eq$8qq@news.nyu.edu> <560nst$bnu@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert White says "All of the above still has me very confused. You need to make it crystal clear to lawyers that there is not a problem. I do not think that you and Robert Dewar have completely re-assured Richard, Britt and me that there is not a problem. We need to get the lawyers to clear it." It *is* quite clear to lawyers, but you need to give them the right material to look at. Remember this thread started with an incorrect uniformed guess that GNAT used the LGPL, and a comment that some lawyers did not like the LGPL. The latter may be true, but given that GNAT does NOT use the LGPL, not relevant By all means have your lawyers read the GPL, and then read the exception clause that is used in the license for GNAT components, as indeed you should have them read ALL copyright and license provisions for ANY components you intend to include in your software. If your lawyer has a question, then, as Richard noted, have him get in touch with RMS, or with us, and we will explain. In particular, if you or your lawyer have some idea of a scenario which is worrisome, then explain it to us, and we will explain to you why your worry is groundless. We can't react to vague unarticulated concerns. Such concerns without specific questions are indeed in the FUD category :-) Lots of major companies, including Silicon Graphics, Lockheed, Boeing, and many others are creating proprietary and/or classified Ada codes using GNAT. Furthermore, in the past, many companies have used GNU C or G++ to create proprietary software. I gave the example of Nextstep, but there are several other companies that use only GNU software to create their proprietary software. There is no problem here. Why you think there might be is unclear to us, since you have not articulated any specific concern that can be addressed.