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Commonly known as the '''GMGPL''', the "GNAT Modified General Public License" is identical to the [[GNU GPL v3 Licence]] except that it adds the following clause to the terms and conditions of the licence, the basic idea is to ensure that there is no ambiguity for those that want to build commercial tools or other closed source software using the GPL V3, and no danger of the GPL unintentionally taking ownership of other code via the "derivative works" clause. | |||
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Note that the licence text below is here for reference purposes and unlike other material on the EDM/2 Wiki is not under the [[Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]] licence and should be treated under its own terms, or if an addition by the combined terms of the addition and the licence that it is an addition to. As it is a licence with fixed terms the text below it should not be modified except for formatting purposes, if a more recent version is published a new page should be created for that licence since software packages that do not get updated will continue to be governed by the terms of the older licence. | |||
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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. | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:33, 4 March 2016
Commonly known as the GMGPL, the "GNAT Modified General Public License" is identical to the GNU GPL v3 Licence except that it adds the following clause to the terms and conditions of the licence, the basic idea is to ensure that there is no ambiguity for those that want to build commercial tools or other closed source software using the GPL V3, and no danger of the GPL unintentionally taking ownership of other code via the "derivative works" clause.
Disclaimer
Note that the licence text below is here for reference purposes and unlike other material on the EDM/2 Wiki is not under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence and should be treated under its own terms, or if an addition by the combined terms of the addition and the licence that it is an addition to. As it is a licence with fixed terms the text below it should not be modified except for formatting purposes, if a more recent version is published a new page should be created for that licence since software packages that do not get updated will continue to be governed by the terms of the older licence.
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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.