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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:43:33 -0400
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
>>  The change of
>> license has no effect on corporations large enough to use GNAT Pro, or
>> on students, hobbyists, or free software developers.
>
> Does it? The GPL is viral and booch, charles, AdaCL - all currently GMGPL
> would need to to relicensed to GPL now to be used with with GNAT/GPL.

This is not true. 

You can use GMGPL sources with GPL sources; the license for the
resulting product must be GPL.

> AdaCL at least produced licence-warnings when compiled with GNAT/GPL. While
> licence warning are not legal the at least shows how AdaCore sees things.
> And this would mean that those libs become unavailable to closed source
> users.

It's not the AdaCL libraries that are unavailable to closed source
users; it's the GNAT runtime libraries. 

As others have pointed out, that just means there will now be a better
market for different Ada runtimes.

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-- Stephe