On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 02:28:57PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > Hi Tristan,
> > 
> > If I understand correctly what GHDL does when it generates an
> > executable: the executable is linked with the ghdl run-time library
> > (GRT). But GRT is under the GPL license. So the generated executable
> > is GPL too.
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> > With others GCC front-ends there are exceptions appended to the GPL
> > license for run-time library portions of the compilers.
> > 
> > For example with Gnu Ada there is the GMGPL exception:
> > http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/GMGPL
> > 
> > Is the GPL licensing of GRT is a deliberate choice ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Perhaps I am mistaking about the licensing of the generated
> > executable... I need clarifications :)
> 
> I thought that nobody would need to distribute a ghdl binary.  Do you really 
> need to do that ?


I can imagine it being useful. What's the harm?


// Jakob



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