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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!209.244.4.230!newsfeed1.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: GtkAda and GPL/GMGPL, was: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is Date: 15 Sep 2005 06:30:32 -0500 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1126783816 10673 192.135.80.34 (15 Sep 2005 11:30:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:30:16 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4698 Date: 2005-09-15T06:30:32-05:00 List-Id: In article <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Ludovic Brenta" writes: > > Please take into account that recent versions of ASIS and GLADE are > only available under GPL, not GMGPL. The same is true for AWS, > GtkAda, XML/Ada etc. but is less of a concern because these libraries > are not tightly coupled with the compiler. > Talking only about GtkAda, a quick check of the source using cvsweb shows that it still has the special exception comments at the top of the modules. This one taken from gtk-dnd.adb, modified 4 weeks ago: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- GtkAda - Ada95 binding for Gtk+/Gnome -- -- -- -- Copyright (C) 2001-2005 -- -- AdaCore -- -- -- -- This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -- -- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public -- -- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either -- -- version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. -- -- -- [snip] -- -- -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from -- -- this unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an -- -- executable, this unit does not by itself cause the resulting -- -- executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This -- -- exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the -- -- executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: The Standard Oil Company of the 21st century