I just ran across this, even though the news is a year old.
http://www.adacore.com/2009/03/3...
Interesting, just interesting.
(I should mention that I think Ada is an excellent language for embedded systems, and one I'd love to be able to use in my own embedded work)
Some issues of WinAVR have included the GCC Ada. However it appears Eric has dropped this from WinAVR20100110 but the files (that rely on WinAVR20100110 being installed) are here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/...
some info about using it here:
(I should mention that I think Ada is an excellent language for embedded systems, and one I'd love to be able to use in my own embedded work)
If you're willing to go GPL across the board,
Long ago I used a GCC and it's documentation stated your application becomes GPL.
I need to read GPL 2 ....
Read a summary and arguments; I'm starting to spin.
After a link your program likely used part of 'libgcc.a'; the GCC library is GPL therefore your program becomes GPL.
There is an argument that your program does not.
A lot of companies avoid the problem by buying commercial versions of GCC.
EDIT:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF
You still have to deal with use of gcc and libgcc; how to do this is stated in GPL.
FUD, FUD, FUD, and FUD, because
Only that libgcc does not use the normal GPL, but comes with an exception.
And only that avr-libc is not libgcc, and comes with a completely different license (BSD style).
And that buying commercial GCC versions don't change the GCC license, because the commercial vendors don't have all the rights from all contributing individuals and organizations to change the GCC license. They inherit code which is licensed to them and does not grant them the right to relicense it under a different license. They can only add a library or tool under their own license, not relicense anything they don't have the copyright for.
How could anyone be using GCC professionally if it really were the case that it's generated code was limited by GPL?!? Crazy!
FUD, FUD, FUD, and FUD, because
Only that libgcc does not use the normal GPL, but comes with an exception.And only that avr-libc is not libgcc, and comes with a completely different license (BSD style).
And that buying commercial GCC versions don't change the GCC license, because the commercial vendors don't have all the rights from all contributing individuals and organizations to change the GCC license. They inherit code which is licensed to them and does not grant them the right to relicense it under a different license. They can only add a library or tool under their own license, not relicense anything they don't have the copyright for.
