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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers
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On 2012-05-20, Britt <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "GPL Bomb" in this context is a "FUD".  I just downloaded the GNAT
> FSF sources contained in the latest GCC 4.7.0 from gnu.org and looked
> in the header of the system.ads and other runtime files.  They all
> contain this:
>
> -- As a special exception under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are
> granted --
> -- additional permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library
> Exception,   --
> -- version 3.1, as published by the Free Software
> Foundation.               --
>
> which is the same as the file headers in the current GNAT Pro sources
> (but different than the GNAT GPL sources).
>

Which is basically the same as the last time I looked.

My concern here is that the OP may found discussions of a possible license
change on, say, a mailing list somewhere which has not yet been implemented.

A search with google has not turned up anything however; I have only found
the discussions about allowing gcc plugins around the time of the 4.4 series.

Simon.

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