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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Gnoga the "Killer App" for Ada
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:32:56 +0100
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Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2014-10-08 09:22, dptrash@arcor.de wrote:
>> Our business decided not to use Gnoga because of the license
>> GPLv3. Any chances for BSD/MIT?
>> 
>
> Is not the exception - in practice - the same thing
>
> This is from header of gnoga-gui-screen.ads (randomly picked)
>
> "
> 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.
> "
>
> and
>
> "
> As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this
> unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable,
> this unit  does not  by itself cause  the resulting executable to be
> covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
> however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file  might be
> covered by the  GNU Public License.
> "
>
> It looks (to me) as just about the same as in gnat pro

Not quite the same as GNAT Pro; AdaCore _replaced_ the second form (the
GMGPL) with the first form.

_I_ agree that businesses should be happy with the runtime library
exception; indeed, if not, they shouldn't use GCC at all because the C++
(and C) RTL is licensed on the same terms. But there's a lot of FUD
about the GPL.