Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available

[Jeff Creem <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:26:16 -0400, Jeff Creem wrote:
> ...
> 
>>It is not a bad thing that Glade and GtkAda are GPL + Exception instead 
>>of LGPL.
> 
> 
> That's the point... GLADE and GtkAda are *not* GPL + Exception,
> according to the COPYING file.

But that is the way GMGPL and all GPL + exception stuff is always marked 
  (when done correctly)

The GPL has right at the beginning:

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.


Take a look at

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Scroll down to the portion where it talks about free licenses that are 
not compatible with the GPL and how to handle them. in particular, look 
at the way they tell you to deal with the Q Public License.

*** Begin reference to GNU License List Text

"Since the QPL is incompatible with the GNU GPL, you cannot take a 
GPL-covered program and QPL-covered program and link them together, no 
matter how.

However, if you have written a program that uses QPL-covered library 
(called FOO), and you want to release your program under the GNU GPL, 
you can easily do that. You can resolve the conflict for your program by 
adding a notice like this to it:

   As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
   with the FOO library and distribute executables, as long as you
   follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the
   software in the executable aside from FOO.

You can do this, legally, if you are the copyright holder for the 
program. Add it in the source files, after the notice that says the 
program is covered by the GNU GPL."

*** End reference

(Hopefully that quote falls under fair use since copying that part of 
the FSF webpage is not a right granted by the webpage copyright )

As you can see, the way the recommend it is exactly the way GtkAda 
handles the similar issue.

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