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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:38:29 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <9070id.mp6.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1128510619.707554.152420@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <07i0id.nkh.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1128521177.691027.124580@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1128528285 31735 195.25.228.57 (5 Oct 2005 16:04:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:04:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: <1128521177.691027.124580@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5411 Date: 2005-10-05T17:38:29+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr