Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2018-04-18, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:44:04 UTC+1, 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.
>>
>> Exactly right.
>
> Well, no: see "Can I use GPL-covered editors such as GNU Emacs to
> develop nonfree programs? Can I use GPL-covered tools such as GCC to
> compile them?" at
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF
>
> It's the runtime that does it.

Technically yes, but in practice very few people are going to write
a new runtime. Most people are going to say "to hell with this" and
just use another language...

This means that in practical terms, saying "the Community version does
impose the GPL on any programs compiled with it" is correct.

Simon.

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