Re: GMGPL for Ada('s generics) but not for C++('s templates)

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> writes:

> Please pardon me if this has been discussed ad infinitum before.  (I
> would appreciate reading those prior discussions if anyone can find
> them easier than my fruitless searches on this specific narrow topic.)
> But one aspect of the GMGPL being peculiar to Ada has always mystified
> me.
>
> If FSF Ada in the GCC needs GMGPL due to Ada's generics, then why
> doesn't FSF C++ in the GCC need a GMGPL for C++'s templates?  It would
> seem what is sauce for cooking the goose would be the same sauce for
> cooking the gander.
>
> (By “needs” here, I am of course referring to the licensing needs of a
> nonGPLed app that merely happens to be written in Ada or in C++ and
> compiled by a compiler in the GCC.  Of course, GPLed apps would have
> no such “need”, other than perhaps for the app to choose GPLv2 instead
> of the GCC's GPLv3.)

You're rather out of date here.

FSF runtimes are nowadays (I suspect since GPLv3) licensed under the GCC
Runtime Library exception: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.