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-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4a3a1fd6$0$30224$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <9331a174-96f7-4551-bc74-3d6946eb9d01@k20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <2e018078-f9ef-4b01-9cf6-08a6aab979e8@s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.198.58.216 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245348040 29858 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2009 18:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.198.58.216; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6509 Date: 2009-06-18T11:00:40-07:00 List-Id: About MinGW : http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ says > Binaries created from the use of MSYS and of MinGW are > not bound by any license found within this package unless > you use a library that is itself covered by the GPL license. > If you wish to create proprietary software then don't use > libiberty.a or any other GPL licensed library. A library > licensed with LGPL (Lesser GPL) may be used by proprietary > software without GPL infection as special permission > within the LGPL has given you this right. I have a doubt about proprietary. This will not use any undocumented file format and source code may be available, but not redistributable (nor binaries of course). About availability of source codes, I may or may not go this way, depending on the trustability of users. If I'm not afraid users will think that source code available means =93 free to distribute =94, it will not be done, and if I think user can be trusted, then source code will be available (I still wonder about it). If source code of applications are to be provided (if I finally decided to), then users will obviously be allowed to modify it for there own use. It is talking about LGPL. I've heard about it about generic packages as well somewhere. On 18 juin, 18:55, Hyman Rosen wrote: > Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrote: > The GNAT compiler is released under the GPL, so AdaCore can't disallow > you from using the compiler however you want. The question is only about > the contents of the compiled executable. If it contains significant > quantities of GPLed code copied into it, then it may be copied and > distributed only under the GPL as a whole. You will have to hire a > lawyer and a computer expert to decide whether that is the case. So if the application is compiled with any part of the Ada standard package provided by GNAT, the application must be GPL ? ... all packages sources for the Ada standard packages from GNAT have a reference to the GPL. By the way, I've discovered that in my GNAT GPS installation on Windows, there is two library set : i686-pc-mingw32 and pentium- mingw32msv Now I gonna find more on this specific license for generic packages