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: a07f3367d7,c92999d3d36edb6c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.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: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:01:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.30.252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1245355292 12.64.30.252 (Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:01:32 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:01:32 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6518 Date: 2009-06-18T20:01:32+00:00 List-Id: The license is for the GNAT compiler and tool suite. You can freely download and modify any to all GNAT programs but you can not sell GNAT or its tools suite unless you obtain the rights from Adacore. You can charge for the time downloading, and the time you spend modifying and compiling GNAT as well as the cost of the storage media (CD). But that's it! Now, if you use GNAT, you can build a commercial program, but the GPL 2 and 3 will force you to use a GPL or GPL-like license for your commerical project. That is, the source code must be available for those who use your program. You can sell the binaries for $xx.xx, and you may either give the source if they ask or in some cases you can charge addition $yy.yy for the source. GNAT Pro (around $15K a year) will allow a commercial program with any license you desire, GPL or non-GPL. But for a more precise definition for Adacore try http://libre.adacore.com/libre/gnat-faq/ or email Adacore sales. In , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= writes: >Hello all of you, > >The Ada 2005 compiler, GNAT GPS licence states that this compiler >cannot be used for commercial applications (if I'm not wrong). The >MinGW compiler suite licence give access to create commercial >applications (if I'm still not wrong). > >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 ? > >Note : this is a for a near futur attempt, I do not know if weither or >not this gonna works find, if weither or not I gonna earn anything. >I'm not sure (as people on the web does not like this kind of things, >this may be rejected). Further more, this will be for very low cost >applications (something which will be paid via SMS+ and the like), so >I cannot risk to lose anything buying a too much expensive licence, >althought if it goes fine, I will obviously agree to give some percent >of my earns to a compiler provider. > >I will not use any of Qt or GTK for Ada, so I have no question about >these libriraries (will use my own), althought some one else may be >interested in this question.