Re: new GNAT

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> 
> > Vincent Smeets wrote:
> >> If someone wants to mirror the AdaCore software, then he
> >> should contact AdaCore about the conditions and possibilities.

Well, the libre site says:

  The GNAT GPL Edition is free of charge and requires a brief sign-up
  process. 

(FUD: The software doesn't require that. ACT requires it for the
service to download GPL GNAT, but the software doesn't. A pity that
the FreeBSD gnat maintainers fell for it and _didn't_ include GNAT
source in the free bsd port port, thus making the process to install
the port rather manual and painful).

  The GNAT GPL Edition is licensed for Free Software development and
  is subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). For
  questions contact us at gnat-gpl@adacore.com and read the GPL FAQ.

Which should be enough concerning the conditions and possibilities. :-]

> > There's no need to contact them about that. The conditions for
> > redistribution are stated very clearly in the General Public License.
> 
> But does the GPL apply only to the source packages and binaries you have
> created yourself?

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