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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7684e927a2475d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions... Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:58:11 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <449660f0$0$11077$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1150717184.087134.177850@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1151050924.969806.284410@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af30f8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1151153891 24741 84.175.48.248 (24 Jun 2006 12:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:58:11 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4971 Date: 2006-06-24T14:58:11+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Creem writes: > If you take something like the GNU scientific library and dynamically > link to it would be seen as trying to work around the GPL and not seen > as trying to meet the intent of the license since if that is what the > authors wanted, they would have gone with the LGPL for that library. Then I would like to hear what the FSF thinks 'using a library' is as opposed to 'derive work from a library'. -- Michael Bode