Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

Jeffrey Creem <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Stephen Leake wrote:


Right: My work has to become GPL as well.
If you distribute binaries compiled with the GNAT GPL compiler, that
is true.


To be clear (and I am not implying that Stephen does not know this)
the work as distributed as part of that binary needs to be GPL as well
but still nothing prevents that source code from being made available
under other terms as well.

Yes, I was not sufficiently clear.


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