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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6975ef46c052458 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Runtime versions (GPL vs Modified GPL) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 06:12:08 +0100 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <0b115c04-ead8-4cec-8867-94ca9632a5b9@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4e35a783-6664-411e-abf6-216bec0bbbc2@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1211433127 6805 62.49.19.209 (22 May 2008 05:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 05:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AoAfCIpyeVvQw67BdIE/6CRhPZo= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:284 Date: 2008-05-22T06:12:08+01:00 List-Id: qunying writes: > On May 16, 3:12�pm, Simon Wright wrote: >> >> If it's an FSF GCC including Ada then it will be the version that >> allows you to build proprietary code. That would include GNAT from >> Cygwin or as part of your Linux distribution. > I don't think you could do that with Cygwin version. When using the > cygwin runtime, you either need to GPL your code or obtain a license > from redhat. Or you use mingw build to avoid the cygwin runtime. Good points -- just goes to show how careful you have to be! I guess this comes under the "any other reason" section.