Copyright (C) 2003 OCERA Consortium. RTLGNAT is a porting of the GNAT runtime of the version 3.14 to RTLinux 3.1 (also works with RTLinux 3.2-pre2). Licenses that apply to the RTLGnat porting: ------------------------------------------ GNAT is distributed under the GPL license with the following special exception: 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. RTLinux 3.1 is distributed under the Open RTLinux patent license Version 2. This license allow you to use RTLinux without fee in two situations: - By software licensed under the GPL; or - By software that executes within an Open RTLinux Execution Environment, whether that software is licensed under the GPL or not. where "Open RTLinux Execution Environment" means: A computer hardware system where the interrupt control hardware of processors and system boards is under the direct control of unmodified Open RTLinux Software in binary form. You can find the complete license document in the RTLinux distribution. RTLGNAT porting do not modify the source code of RTLinux. This porting also contains some code (directory gnu_files/) covered by the BSD license. RTLGnat License: --------------- RTLGnat porting is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 with no special exception, that is, programs that make use of the RTLGnat must comply with all GPL terms and conditions. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. The complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in the accompanying file: GPL-2. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. To pursue alternate licensing terms for this porting, then you should get in contact with the authors (see README).