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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f6ad09be517b338c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: LGPL Requirements (was: Selecting Ada95 compiler for MSDOS realtime application) Date: 1996/11/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195065474 sender: tardieu@gargantua.enst.fr references: <55rs5t$2a3@nw101.infi.net> to: "F. Britt Snodgrass" content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: TELECOM Paris mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "F" == F Britt Snodgrass writes: F> Perhaps Richard's comment was made precisely because he has read F> the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) that covers GNAT's F> libraries. GNAT's libraries covered by the LGPL ? Where did you read this ? F> I would be happy to have someone convince me I'm reading too much F> into the LGPL but it seems pretty clear to me. As much as I like F> GNAT, using it to develop embedded software for a non-free F> commercial product seems to levy additional requirements compared F> to using a non-free Ada compiler. Am I wrong? Well, let's take a GNAT library file: Ada.Text_IO (body) for example. The copyright that is written in it reads: -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- -- -- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- -- -- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- -- -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -- -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -- -- for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General -- -- Public License distributed with GNAT; see file COPYING. If not, write -- -- to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, -- -- MA 02111-1307, USA. -- -- -- -- 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. -- Note the "As a special exception ..." paragraph ! Also note that the LGPL isn't mentionned anywhere in this notice ! Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org