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: a07f3367d7,c92999d3d36edb6c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications References: From: Stephen Leake Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:17:40 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0MB0W75i3BmyZH8kcB5clZ0cZ7Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: c49ac4a3abcf0e9cadf9d30610 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6525 Date: 2009-06-18T18:17:40-04:00 List-Id: "Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" writes: > The Ada 2005 compiler, GNAT GPS licence states that this compiler > cannot be used for commercial applications (if I'm not wrong). You are wrong. You seem to be confusing "commercial" with "proprietary" or "closed source". AdaCore and RedHat are very successful commercial companies that use the same license. In addition, you'll have to be more specific. There are a few different ways to get GNAT GPS, and they come with different licenses. Finally, GPS is an IDE; the license of the IDE is not what matters for distributing something you built with the IDE. What matters is the license of the runtime that is linked with your application. > But what about the Ada 2005 compiler which comes with MinGW ? It has > something to deal with GNAT, isn't it ? So can I use it to comile > commercial applications ? Do you want your application to be open source, or closed source? -- -- Stephe