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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ec90d7920bdc8e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Ada and licensing Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <1190014387.975202.55530@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> <1190028836.075969.233300@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:30:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.222.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1190075417 12.65.222.113 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:30:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:30:17 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2004 Date: 2007-09-18T00:30:17+00:00 List-Id: Problem is that there are a few, close source Linux's device drivers that people can download and use for their cameras/video device drivers that are written in Ada. So unless that code become GPL and open source the decive will not work as of Jan 2008. Also, some applications do require special modules or direcet links into a module. And that the problem. Plus at the movement in GNAT Ada83..2005 the "pragma License" is non-functional other than the GNAT compiler warning. The compiler does not insert the correct information that the GNU/GCC will require for that feature in Jan, 2008. So, if your using GNAT or any other Ada that does not support the GPL license requirement by Jan, 2008, Linux might not load module. In , Dirk Heinrichs writes: >anon wrote: > >> Also Note: There is a movement to have GPL license module only in Linux, >> starting in Jan 2008. Not sure how Adacore or GNAT will >> handle this. > >I guess this would only be relevant if you develop Linux kernel modules with >GNAT. It doesn't affect userland applications in any way. > >Bye... > > Dirk