From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: ada & gui
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:02:13 GMT
Date: 2005-08-01T00:02:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nospam-FC28AF.20015631072005@news-server.woh.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m23bpwavff.fsf@grendel.local
In article <m23bpwavff.fsf@grendel.local>,
Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
>
> > If you modify a GMGPL library and distribute the modified code, you
> > have to provide the modifications, as required by the GPL. Now you
> > choose the license under which to redistribute your modified
> > library. The GPL requires that you "not impose any further
> > restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted
> > herein." Doesn't that preclude your choosing a license that's more
> > restrictive than GMGPL. If you redistribute under GMGPL, then your
> > code that uses the library would be explicitly exempt from the
> > linking provision, just as it was before you started.
> >
> > I can't help wondering if the GNAT modification was designed to
> > achieve just this effect.
>
> Well, that may be so. I guess on the other hand that a corporate legal
> department faced with this might be happy with the use of an
> unmodified GNAT RTL (where the position is clear) but unhappy with the
> required use of a modified GNAT RTL (or other GMGPL library, of
> course) where the position is less clear.
I guess I don't understand what becomes less clear after GMGPL software
is modified.
--
John
jmatthews at wright dot edu
www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-29 9:25 ada & gui Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 11:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 11:43 ` Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 12:40 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-07-29 12:52 ` Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 13:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-07-29 13:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 16:51 ` Simon Wright
2005-07-30 1:27 ` John B. Matthews
2005-07-30 10:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-07-30 16:27 ` John B. Matthews
2005-07-30 20:30 ` Simon Wright
2005-08-01 0:02 ` John B. Matthews [this message]
2005-08-01 13:32 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-08-01 18:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-29 13:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 14:12 ` Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 14:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 14:27 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-07-29 11:28 ` Jeff Creem
2005-07-29 12:23 ` Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 13:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 13:59 ` Szymon Guz
2005-07-29 14:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-29 11:33 ` Martin Dowie
2005-07-29 14:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-07-29 12:31 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-08-02 16:11 ` Lucretia
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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2010-12-30 19:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-12-31 8:11 ` Robin
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2022-04-05 19:30 ` Ada_GUI Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-04-06 7:21 ` Ada_GUI Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-04-06 15:29 ` Ada_GUI AdaMagica
2022-04-06 15:38 ` Ada_GUI Jeffrey R.Carter
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2022-04-08 14:31 ` Ada_GUI Jeffrey R.Carter
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2022-04-09 13:38 ` Ada_GUI Jeffrey R.Carter
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