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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada Generic Library (very) preliminary release
Date: 1997/07/09
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Date: 1997-07-09T00:00:00+00:00
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iRichard said

<<Did you mean precisely what you wrote?  It would make sense to release it

under the LGPL (since it's a library) or the GPL with the "special

exception", but the LGPL plus special exception seems strange.>>


The LGPL notion is an obsolete notion that does not apply at all to generic
packages in e4ither C++ or in Ada 95. The idea of relinking with
new versions makes no
sense at all for generic isntantiations (use of templates).

That is why we uwse the modified GPL for GNAYT, and that is the right choice
(given the author';s aims) for the Ada STL.

And please note, despite confusing posts from RObert Leif and others, use of the
modified GPL means that the package is equally usable with all Ada compilers that
support it.