From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4d70a6d53a28095 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: gshapovalov@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda License Question Date: 20 Jun 2006 00:48:00 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1150789680.657476.202380@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1150717691.939423.322620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.194.54.121 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1150789685 11105 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2006 07:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:48:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; appLanguage) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.194.54.121; posting-account=JLj9sw0AAAAfN2BnIEmryYsYbxhqZ35_ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4849 Date: 2006-06-20T00:48:00-07:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Now, I think it is reasonable to presume that: No, it is not, you *should* contact AdaCore and ask, see below. > - GtkAda GPL edition (both version 2.4.1 and version "gps-3.1.3" are > included) is pure GPL > - GtkAda 2.4.0 from libre is GMGPL No, it is not. When repackaging it for Gentoo I actually raised the issue with AdaCore (exactly because of that contradiction of headers having the GM excerpt but claiming pure GPL in some file, *not* COPYING, which was missing). The answer was that it is pure GPL, as everything distributed off libre2 site. Although, if you got it from the original libre site (is it still functional? It seems to redirect me to libre2 nowadays) you might still have the GMGPL version, although I doubt there is any actual difference. They don't seem to care much about packaging stuff cleanly.. Of course you should not take my words for anything and coact them yourself. You are held legally responsible for any action taken on my advice ;). The added benefit of more people contacting them is that this may finally force them to update the documentation to reflect the present situation more clearly.. > - GtkAda from CVS is GMGPL (the headers have the exception.) Again and for the same reason, I would not presume that, or in fact anything. With them it seems it is obligatory to ask.. > In Debian, all libraries are GMGPL, except ASIS 2006 which will soon > arrive in Etch under pure GPL. Use Debian. Debian is good for your > mental health :) Um, in the view of the above I am not sure you can distribute them as GMGPL ;). George