[AWS] imgsvr announcement

Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:55:35 +0200


Patrice,

It is great to see the first on-the-shelf product based on AWS !

You said on your home page that this is GPL software, you should certainly
remove the special exception in your sources:

<<
--  As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this   --
--  unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable,  --
--  this  unit  does not  by itself cause  the resulting executable to be   --
--  covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not      --
--  however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file  might be  --
--  covered by the  GNU Public License.                                     --
>>

It seems that you have used the same header than AWS, AWS is GMGPL (GNAT
Modified GPL) in short this is needed to be able to use AWS (it is a library)
in a commercial project. In your case you have a end-user product, so it makes
sense to have it GPLed. Anyway, if you really meant to have it distributed as
GPL software you should remove the quoted comments above.

Pascal.

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