Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

>> But the application programmer *is* the user of the compiler.
>
> The question was not about the compiler, it was about the run-time
> library.

I thought the problem arises if one instantiates generics. This is
usage of an Ada compiler. I also thought the run-time could be linked
dynamically and thus be distributed separate. For now I'm fine with
gnat 3.15p, but maybe that also doesn't work for me licence-wise as...

...in an related thread there is a discussion of the license for
GtkAda. I just looked at some source files of the CVS Version
(https://libre2.adacore.com/cvsweb/GtkAda/) and they still read:

...
-- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from  --
...

If this means you need a written statement signed by Robert Dewar to
be sure you won't be sued by Adacore if you use it in a CSS project,
then probably I better read that Java book on my bookshelf. (I'm not
the one who decides what licence my code has, I'm only the one who
decides what language it is written in.)

-- 
Michael Bode