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: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe3-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <43342d07$0$16484$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:08:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe3-gui.ntli.net 1127498903 80.4.127.115 (Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:08:23 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:08:23 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5070 Date: 2005-09-23T18:08:23+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:29:12 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > What is the reason that people think they can distribute > software under their own terms and conditions ... because that is the normal thing for code in C, C++ and many other languages compiled with GPL compilers and only using the built-in capabilities of the language and standard libraries. As others have said, it'd be an easy mistake to make. Are there any other GPL compilers which generate encumbered binaries from unencumbered sources and not linked against any special-purpose libraries? -- Adrian