Re: new GNAT

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

M E Leypold wrote:

> 
> No. It applies to the stuff distributed by ACT. IANAL but AFAIK
> everybody could just mirror the files from ACT. I wouldn't recommend
> it though, since in the GNAT-2006 release they have stripped the
> linking exception from the source files even if they didn't change
> anything (or hardly anything, see florist as an example). One is
> probably better off distributing florist-3.15p than the
> florist-gpl-2006 from the ACT site.
> 
> 
> Regards -- Markus
> 

Or, one can use the florist from gnuada.sf.net. This is based on the 
last 3.15p florist with updates to keep it compiling with recent 
versions of GCC from the FSF tree. The updates (at least the ones I did) 
were not done by backporting the GPL version but were just done by 
looking at why the files did not compile and looking at the recent GCC 
sources.

Of course, given the lack of a complete test suite, it is certainly 
still possible that this was done incorrectly..... But it is another 
option if you can't go full GPL but aren't doing something that is real 
enough to require a GNATPro release.