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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS
Date: 2000/02/24
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rracine@myremarq.com (Roger Racine) writes:

> I am not sure about the license issues.  Their code has "all rights
> reserved", but it was based on the GNAT source.  The GNAT source has
> pretty open language, but definitely -not- GPL (since it is expected
> to be used as a library), so the TopLayer code does not appear to be
> "open by extension".

"GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 terms of the GNU General Public License ...

"As a special exception,  if other files  instantiate  generics from this 
 unit, or you link  this unit with other files  to produce an executable, 
 this  unit  does not  by itself cause  the resulting  executable  to  be 
 covered  by the  GNU  General  Public  License.  This exception does not 
 however invalidate  any other reasons why  the executable file  might be 
 covered by the  GNU Public License. ...

IANAL but seems to me that if I were to base my code on the GNAT
sources it would definitely come under the GPL. However, if I just use
functionality provided by the GNAT sources, that's a different matter.