Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2006 22:30 schrieben Sie:
> Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Package: gnat-4.1
> > Version: 4.1.0-3
> >
> > The copyright file of this package is a copyright file for GCC which
> > doesn't mention GNAT altogether.
>
> But GNAT is part of GCC.
The copyright file lists the components of GCC but doesn't mention GNAT there.
From the copyright file:
This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GCC compiler
collection, containing C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran-95,
Java, and Pascal compilers, and the libstdc++ support library.
In addition, the GNAT licensing issues are not so easy so I would be glad if
these issues could be made clearer.
There are different editions of GNAT. Currently, there are three different
editions provided by Ada Core and there is GNAT as part of GCC. One of the
Ada Core GNATs is GNAT GPL Edition. As far as I understand, this edition
(which is released under the GPL) doesn't allow you to release your compiled
code under a license other than the GPL. Former GPL-licensed versions of
GNAT by Ada Core (Technologies) had a special exception to allow the
development of proprietary programs with GNAT (and probably also
non-GPL-licensed free software). The copyright file of the current gnat
package (“gnat” without a dash and a version number) seems to contain this
license.
I would like to know if the GCC GNAT can only be used to produce GPL-licensed
binaries or if a special exception like the one in the classical free GNAT
license applies to it.
In addition, (although this probably doesn't really belong to this bug report)
I'd like to know if gnat-4.1 corresponds to recent releases of GNAT by Ada
Core, especially if Ada 2005 is more or less supported.
