Re: ANNOUNCE: DTraq Released

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:

>> As a potential customer of yours, I would want the part of your
>> code that's linked with mine in my product (your runtime) to be
>> GMGPL, regardless of the compiler you use to develop it[1].
>
> Which it now is.  I removed the GNAT dependencies from that code,
> which was primarily the replacement of GNAT.Sockets with AdaSockets,
> so as to get GMGPL instead of GPL (for GNAT GPL 2005 and beyond).

What I don't see is why using GNAT.Sockets, which as an abstract
interface can be obtained GPL or GMGPL, ditto its implementations,
should make a difference to the licence under which _your_ source is
released?

Anyone is free to use eg the Booch Components with any Ada compiler
they like; certainly Aonix, probably Apex, either flavour of
GNAT. Instantiating a GMGPL source using a GPL runtime is going to
result in a binary that has to be issued under the GPL, sure.

I would find it quite hard to justify using AdaSockets given that
there is a perfectly workable and supported functionality in GNAT
already.

I also don't see why you've jumped through hoops to use AdaSockets
instead of GNAT.Sockets "so as to get GMGPL instead of GPL (for GNAT
GPL 2005 and beyond)". If I use GNAT GPL I _must_ release under GPL
(if at all), regardless of any GMGPL freedoms on other library
components.