Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

Simon Wright wrote:

> From the Libre site --
> 
> Q I would like to release my software under the XYZ license, which is
> a Free Software license according to the FSF, but is incompatible with
> the GPL. What should I do?
> 
> A The GNAT GPL Edition doesn't limit in any way the license you use on
> your sources. If you are distributing sources only, no issue with
> respect to the license of GNAT GPL Edition arises. You or anyone who
> wants to build a binary can do so freely from these sources, using
> either the GNAT GPL compiler or any other suitable Ada compiler.  If
> you want to *distribute* a binary of your program compiled with the
> compiler in the GNAT GPL Edition then *today* the binary must be
> licensed under the GPL. Note that you can still license a copy of your
> sources under the XYZ Free Software license of your choosing.  It is
> AdaCore's intention to work with the FSF to modify the licensing of
> the GNAT GPL Edition to allow the use of other Free Software licenses
> for binaries produced with the compiler inside the GNAT GPL
> Edition. Meanwhile, you can distribute in source form only.

I don't recall seeing this when I 1st perused the GNAT GPL site. Is it a recent 
addition?

If, in fact, I can release a binary compiled with GNAT GPL and still use license 
L* on my code, then the situation is not as I thought. Of course, IANAL.

*For me, L would be GMGPL, but I thought it best to use general terms here.

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Jeff Carter
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