Re: ANNOUNCE: DTraq Released

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

M E Leypold wrote:
> "Marc A. Criley" <marccriley@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
>>DTraq 1.000 for GNAT 3.15p is licensed using the GNAT-Modified GPL, i.e.,
>>GMGPL.
>>
>>DTraq 1.100 for GNAT GPL 2005 is licensed using the full GPL, although the
>>instrumentation portion that is compiled into the client remains GMGPL, for
>>what it's worth.
> 
> Is that a change in policy or do you think/know that Code released for
> use with GNAT 2006 cannot have the linking exceptions (for this part
> of the code at least)?

The licensing of DTraq is being driven by the licensing of the GNAT 
Run-time library.

I made an effort to keep the client instrumentation packages GMGPL (by 
replacing GNAT.Sockets in 3.15p with AdaSockets) so that one could at least 
theoretically use DTraq on non-GPL code.  Frankly I doubt the practicality 
of that, though, since DTraq uses ASIS, which is compiler-version specific, 
so to use the GNAT GPL 2005 version of DTraq one would have to compile and 
build their code with that compiler...which would require the code be GPL 
if it was to be distributed.

I haven't acquired GNAT GPL 2006 yet, but I have every expectation that it, 
too, will be GPL.

Continued DTraq development will be for the GNAT GPL 200x compiler 
versions, since those are AdaCore blessed and maintained.  Unless of course 
someone contracts for a GNAT Pro or other version :-)

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