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Commonly known as he GMGPL, the GNAT Modified General Public License is identical to the [[GNU GPL v3 License]] except that it adds the following clause to the terms and conditions of the license, 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. | Commonly known as he GMGPL, the GNAT Modified General Public License is identical to the [[GNU GPL v3 License]] except that it adds the following clause to the terms and conditions of the license, 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. | ||
Revision as of 23:51, 20 November 2014
Description
Commonly known as he GMGPL, the GNAT Modified General Public License is identical to the GNU GPL v3 License except that it adds the following clause to the terms and conditions of the license, 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.
Disclaimer
Note that the license text below is here for reference purposes and unlike other material on the EDM/2 Wiki is not under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and should be treated under its own terms, or if an addition by the combined terms of the addition and the license that it is an addition to. As it is a license 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 license since software packages that do not get updated will continue to be governed by the terms of the older license.
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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.