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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5efeb51ce0b50b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!130.95.128.9.MISMATCH!news.uwa.edu.au!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!nasal.pacific.net.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition From: David Trudgett Organization: Very little? References: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q27/Qlez7DoCgHFu21RO7DfF2No= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:54:14 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.8.36.82 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nasal.pacific.net.au 1126681127 61.8.36.82 (Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:58:47 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:58:47 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4645 Date: 2005-09-14T16:54:14+10:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson 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 -- David Trudgett http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/ Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.