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: 103376,5efeb51ce0b50b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition References: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:03:36 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126713817 147.24.111.90 (Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:03:37 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:03:37 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4664 Date: 2005-09-14T09:03:36-07:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson wrote: > > Exactly. Until now, the license of Gnat's implementation of the standard > Ada library has had an exception just like libstdc++. Now this > announcement appears to say that the new edition will only be useful for > building GPL software, and that makes Jeffrey Carter and me wonder if > perhaps that exception has been removed. Also, Ada programs link in an Ada run time library. If the run time library is GPL, then the resulting program is GPL. All existing public GNAT releases from AdaCore have had an exception on the run time library. One could always use another implementation of the standard library, but another version of the run time library is a bit more difficult. Probably there is no problem, and AdaCore's public releases will still be able to produce non-GPL programs. Even if AdaCore decides to remove the exemption from the run time library for its public releases, we still have the GCC versions, which we can reasonably expect to adhere to the goals of the GCC project, which include being able to produce non-GPL programs. -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com