Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition

[David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>]

Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:

> David Trudgett wrote:
>>     Does the libstdc++ exception permit dynamic linking?
>>         Yes. The intent of the exception is to allow people to
>> compile
>>         proprietary software using gcc.
>> [...] that would be a matter of library licensing, and
>> not of GNAT's licence itself.
>
> Exactly. Until now, the license of Gnat's implementation of the
> standard Ada library has had an exception just like libstdc++. Now
> this announcement appears to say that the new edition will only be
> useful for building GPL software, and that makes Jeffrey Carter and me
> wonder if perhaps that exception has been removed.

It occurs to me that removing this exception would be tantamount to
provoking a code fork.

As others have commented, the wording is probably nothing more than
perception management. 

We'll have to wait and see.

David


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