Re: Binary Distribution - Ada utilities

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT), "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com"
<RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>all 
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>I am writing some utilities using gnat gpl. I am confused about some licensing considerations.
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>E.g. 
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>https://github.com/RajaSrinivasan/Projects.git
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>I would like to distribute the binaries for those who would not care about sources.
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	They may not care about sources, but the impression I get of GPL itself
is that you MUST provide the sources with it.

>Some questions:
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>- For Win 7, what is the minimal set of dll's needed for a command line program?
>- Can I include these dll's in my distro?
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>so far I have not used any packages other than from GNAT GPL. But I am going to be starting to use some other packages such as the library from zipada. how does it change the picture?
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	You need to check the license for that third-party package, and somehow
combine it with the GPL license.

	If it is a prebuilt DLL, you probably only have to look at the
distribution restrictions for the DLL itself... BUT, if the DLL is built
from source USING GNAT GPL, it likely now incorporates its original license
and GPL (if it uses ANY of the GNAT run-time library -- which is almost
anything useful -- the run-time is no longer non-infectious).

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