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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151436486.2179.48.camel@localhost> <1151438973.2179.67.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: # Message-ID: <1151441594.2179.103.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:53:15 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jun 2006 22:51:26 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 19cc7792.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=e>MVEdLY8FVTkno\?fPDcVQ5U85hF6f;TjW\KbG]kaMXGSi?jHD8GOPonU86EAf1aQUUng9_FXZ=S>:=P9Ihe`BX@Z?dZ]MOidU X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5127 Date: 2006-06-27T22:51:26+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 22:23 +0200, Michael Bode wrote: > I > claim that a sudden, secret and maybe retroactive (or maybe it was > between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1?, AdaCore won't tell us) change of license > happend to GtkAda. And if that happens once ... > > Regarding messages from AdaCore to the contrary of anything: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20050224092046/http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/ > Ludovic lets us know a response from AdaCore that uses the _present_ tense, - All software downloaded from AdaCore is pure GPL, no matter what the headers say. I don't think that _if_ there was a legal status at a time in the recent past, this status can be declared something different. These things should happen only after one legal system has been dropped in favor of another, for example after a war. I am aware that many of the software packages used to be advertised as being GMGPL. With Debian in particular, I think there might be more issues, like you don't want to stress your good relations with AdaCore, if any, if you are maintaining Debian Ada software that nowadays is mostly produced by AdaCore. This, I guess, is just a business issue for some who are involved. In fact, we might be able to produce more GPLed software for profit in spite of all the rogues around. It's worth a try, anyway, and some report success. Yet, what about a collaborative effort to produce good general purpose Ada libraries to be used in Ada programs, irrespective of the compiler. Hm. A PAL with funding from everyone involved, including compiler makers and their customers. We've all got to make a living, haven't we? Georg