Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> But you can modify the run-time, ship it in binary only as part of your
> program, and prevent anyone from seeing your modifications.  Thus, you
> can make a closed-source version of the run-time.
I don't think so, GMGPL is not BSD (but IANAL). What the GMGPL allows is 
using the RTL without making your program fall under the GPL. On all 
other aspects, it is GPL.

> Run-time library /= compiler.  You yourself pointed that out today in
> a previous post.  Therefore, your comparison with GIMP is incorrect,
> because GIMP does not include any "run-time library" into images.
I know the comparison is not perfect, but what I mean is that the goal 
of a compiler (in the wide sense, including the library) is to produce 
programs. The fact that it does so by using a library rather that 
generating code in-line is an implementation detail. This is just an 
analogy.

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