From: Jeff Creem <jcreem@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:50:32 -0400
Date: 2005-10-07T08:50:32-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eLednaybe-pr89veRVn-vg@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mrw+A5Ls5qp1@eisner.encompasserve.org>
Simon Clubley wrote:
> In article <zFn1f.7633$zQ3.5405@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
>
>>Simon Wright wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't understand. Are you saying that distributing an executable
>>>affects the source code it is built from? Your source code (which you
>>>would of course distribute with the executable) is what it always was
>>>and its GMGPL licencing is clearly compatible with the GPL (it adds
>>>rights). So the person you distribute to only has to recompile with a
>>>different compiler; where's the problem?
>>
>>The GPL is quite clear that a program that uses GPL code in any way falls under
>>the GPL. If the run-time library is GPL code, then any program that uses the
>>run-time library is GPL.
>>
>
>
> Regardless of who is right about the effects of the GPL compiler on source
> and binary distribution of programs developed using it, the fact that people
> _within_ the Ada community are debating this at all shows that ACT have just
> created a large amount of confusion in people potentially interested in Ada.
>
No. Actually, what it shows is that a large number of developers are not
lawyers and don't understand software licensing so when licensing terms
are brought to the forefront, they get confused and upset.
I find this to generally be true with all non-trivial license terms
including that of most free software projects as well as proprietary
projects.
Of course I can't argue with your core assertion since the developers
that are now having to confront license issues are people interested in
Ada...
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 20:15 GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades Marc A. Criley
2005-10-05 8:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 8:58 ` michael bode
2005-10-05 9:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 11:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 12:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 14:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 14:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 15:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 16:22 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-10-05 18:28 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-10-13 21:13 ` wojtek
2005-10-05 14:06 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-10-05 15:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 21:25 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-06 1:18 ` David Trudgett
2005-10-06 7:18 ` David Trudgett
2005-10-06 8:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-06 8:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-05 12:25 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-05 18:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-05 18:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-06 18:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-06 19:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-06 22:27 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 5:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-07 5:54 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 18:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-08 6:18 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 11:57 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-07 12:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-07 12:50 ` Jeff Creem [this message]
2005-10-25 15:44 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-25 16:35 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-26 13:43 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-25 20:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-25 21:13 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-25 22:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-25 22:41 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-26 10:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-26 10:12 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-27 11:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 13:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-27 14:05 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 14:25 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-27 15:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 16:59 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-27 17:09 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 17:33 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-27 19:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 19:49 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 19:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-28 6:41 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-30 14:17 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-30 17:44 ` Jeff Creem
2005-10-30 19:53 ` Anh Vo
2005-10-28 5:10 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-28 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-28 11:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-28 12:34 ` none
2005-10-28 12:35 ` Emmanuel Briot
2005-10-28 12:35 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 14:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-28 21:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-29 12:25 ` Jeff Creem
2005-10-28 5:41 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-28 8:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-28 10:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2005-10-28 18:07 ` Michael Bode
2005-10-31 14:58 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-01 16:54 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-01 16:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-02 16:15 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-02 17:36 ` Steffen Huber
2005-11-02 19:08 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02 19:09 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-28 18:52 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-02 21:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-07 23:11 ` Björn Persson
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