On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 08:31 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > What the long term prospects of g95 and gfortran are, nobody knows. But > right now, g95 just works better than gfortran.
There are issues with g95 that may affect the binary distribution. The runtime libraries are licensed under the GPL - in contrast the gfortran libraries are GPL + this exception: In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs, and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine executable.) The g95 situation means that, due to the nature of the GPL, anything built with g95 becomes GPL licensed. While this situation is, in my opinion, acceptable for build from source, it is questionable for binary distributions. Peter
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