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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!randhol From: randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1127392186 433 129.241.210.178 (22 Sep 2005 12:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:29:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (FreeBSD) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5027 Date: 2005-09-22T12:29:46+00:00 List-Id: In article Marin David Condic wrote: >Maybe I missed something? I thought ACT had licensed Gnat under terms >that allowed you to develop "proprietary" software with it? Did that >somehow change? Is it now such that anything compiled by Gnat has to >fall under their licensing terms? Yes. Unless you buy support. The GNAT GPL 2005 is pure GPL. I mean you can of course put whatever license on you uncompiled code, but if you want to compile it with GNAT GPL 2005 you must change to GPL as far as I understand. Preben