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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87ek6zom2h.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:43:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.220.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1128710604 67.3.220.163 (Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:43:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:43:24 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5499 Date: 2005-10-07T18:43:24+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Jeff Carter "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 66