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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On 04/18/2018 02:44 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> Also, as far as I can see (and I am willing to be corrected here if
> I am wrong) it means that you can't even write a library in Ada under
> something other than the GPL if you are going to use the Community
> version. As soon as you compile the library source with the Community
> version, it falls under the GPL and hence any software using your
> library also falls under the GPL.

This is not true (or wasn't the last time I read the GPL). It says that if you 
distribute binaries created with GPLed S/W, that you must also make the full 
sources available under the GPL. If you don't distribute anything, then it 
doesn't matter if you use GPLed S/W. If you distribute source code, then your 
code is only required to fall under the GPL if it's derived from GPLed S/W. Only 
if you distribute binaries can your choice of compiler cause your code to fall 
under the GPL.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"[T]he Musgroves had had the ill fortune
of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and
the good fortune to lose him before he
reached his twentieth year ..."
Persuasion
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