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-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!ikaria.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: 19 Sep 2005 15:38:53 +0200 Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: References: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3467d$432b0af1$49956f8$22115@ALLTEL.NET> <1127092850.124710.16350@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be X-Trace: ikaria.belnet.be 1127137134 22720 134.58.127.12 (19 Sep 2005 13:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@heli.cs.kuleuven.ac.be X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4905 Date: 2005-09-19T15:38:53+02:00 List-Id: In article , Brian May wrote: [...] >The FSF license the C runtime libraries using the LGPL. I think >something similar has been done for the C++ runtime libraries too. This is incorrect. The C++ runtime library is not distributed under the LGPL, but under conditions identical to those that were used for the GNAT 3.15p runtime library. See . >I fail to see why the Ada runtime library needs to be different. The situation became different with the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition. Hence this thread... Dirk