From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Ada and licensing
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:05:16 +0200
Date: 2007-09-19T22:05:16+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygetzpqo1z7.fsf@hugsarin.dmusyd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2abrimo32.fsf@mac.com
Simon Wright wrote:
> Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
>> I suppose you could also compile with GNAT, and send a library to
>> your customers. Still no RTL involved.
>
> I think that would be the same as distributing an executable.
Not quite.
> Not aware of anyone having discussed this, but as far as I can see a
> .o file would be GPL'd just as much as the .exe's built from it.
No. The GPL is on the run-time library. And .o files are not linked,
and thus not infected with the license of the run-time library.
Greetings,
Jacob (IANAL)
--
Rent-a-Minion Inc. Because good help is so hard to find.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 7:33 Ada and licensing Tomek Wałkuski
2007-09-17 8:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 8:07 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 9:27 ` Stephen Leake
2007-09-17 9:37 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-17 11:15 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 11:33 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 13:10 ` anon
2007-09-17 16:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 16:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 17:26 ` Markus E L
[not found] ` <1190095844.877071@xnews001>
2007-09-18 7:19 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-18 13:33 ` Markus E L
2007-09-18 0:30 ` anon
2007-09-18 6:06 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-18 13:32 ` Markus E L
2007-09-17 10:09 ` anon
2007-09-17 11:12 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 12:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-17 12:42 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 20:20 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-09-17 20:34 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 21:01 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 4:48 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 14:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-19 9:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2007-09-19 19:50 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-19 20:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2007-09-19 22:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-20 8:30 ` Markus E L
2007-09-21 20:12 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-21 21:46 ` Ada and licensing + how to keep the RTL license from propagating :-) Markus E L
2007-09-22 23:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 8:54 ` Markus E L
2007-09-23 11:48 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 19:41 ` Markus E L
2007-09-19 23:15 ` Ada and licensing Jeffrey Creem
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