Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

Martin Krischik <krischik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

M E Leypold wrote:

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Simon Wright wrote:
Since the BCs don't use the non-standard pragma License (Licence?) the
question doesn't arise. And given this discussion they are not going
to.

In the absence of pragma License GNAT scans the commens for magic words
which indicate the lincence used ;-) . As it is the BC will be
considered GMGPL by GNAT. But since no GNAT specific packages are used
no licence warnings are issued.

If if there would be: I do not grok it: Linking GMGPL with GPL
libraries should put the excutable under GPL, but the GMGPL part of
the source would still be under GMGPL, wouldn't it? Why the license
warnings then with GNAT specific units?

Because Ada support "rename" - the GMGPL package could pass thru GPL
licensed stuff. The Linux-Kernel Guys are really pissed of by many
companies circumventing the GPL by modules containing basicly:

void x ()
{
y();
}

I don't quite understand this point. However, I suppose it protects me
as a GMGPL author from mistakenly depending on something which (in the
public GNAT GPL compiler) is GPL. For instance, my embedded web server
depends on GNAT.Regex, damnit.
.

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