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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:26:52 +0100
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> M E Leypold wrote:
>
>> "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Simon Wright wrote:
>>> > Since the BCs don't use the non-standard pragma License (Licence?) the
>>> > question doesn't arise. And given this discussion they are not going
>>> > to.
>>> 
>>> In the absence of pragma License GNAT scans the commens for magic words
>>> which indicate the lincence used ;-) . As it is the BC will be
>>> considered GMGPL by GNAT. But since no GNAT specific packages are used
>>> no licence warnings are issued.
>> 
>> If if there would be: I do not grok it: Linking GMGPL with GPL
>> libraries should put the excutable under GPL, but the GMGPL part of
>> the source would still be under GMGPL, wouldn't it? Why the license
>> warnings then with GNAT specific units?
>
> Because Ada support "rename" - the GMGPL package could pass thru GPL
> licensed stuff. The Linux-Kernel Guys are really pissed of by many
> companies circumventing the GPL by modules containing basicly:
>
> void x ()
>   {
>   y();
>   }

I don't quite understand this point. However, I suppose it protects me
as a GMGPL author from mistakenly depending on something which (in the
public GNAT GPL compiler) is GPL. For instance, my embedded web server
depends on GNAT.Regex, damnit.