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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:13:15 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad> <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com> <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <724c149f-0396-42a4-8594-bdbf21cce0d9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e4b4b8b581459d4904f1a14c474a248f"; logging-data="11356"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pIz/4qkS9KppRSwNsOjUeMjn/6au9EHI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:AgDe/DjPh/F9CBUzjMnwFOFSm1I= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24816 Date: 2015-01-30T10:13:15-07:00 List-Id: On 01/30/2015 06:50 AM, Simon Wright wrote: > Björn Lundin writes: > >> In other words, you can make non-GPL programs/libraries >> with GNAT-FSF. But EVERYTHING you create with GNAT-GPL >> is GPL'd. Automatically. > > If you build/link against the supplied RTS. But if you don't use an RTS > (see Maciej's post about Ada on Cortex-M), or you use an RTS with the > runtime exception or equivalent (see my STM32F4 GNAT RTS), the GPL > doesn't apply (unless you want it to). You also have to not "with" any language-defined units. -- Jeff Carter It's better to be root than to reboot. 119