From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:14:29 +0200
Date: 2006-06-28T13:12:36+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151493268.24349.37.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2006.06.28.10.50.58.723082@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:51 +0000, Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> "In order for these freedoms to be real, they must be irrevocable as long
> as you do nothing wrong; if the developer of the software has the power to
> revoke the license, without your doing anything to give cause, the
> software is not free."
>
> It seems pretty clear from the general industry practice in software
> that GPL is not revocable. The Ada software in question does not
> meet this definition of Free Software if the GMGPL licences really
> have been revoked.
There is no instance of anything being revoked, AFAICS, if AdaCore
is entitled to drop the exception from the source they distribute,
which might feel like something has been revoked. I doubt this
is an adequate description of the (GM)GPL legal situation.
The license text is the GPL in either case, GPL or GPL with the
special exception.
If any license has been granted to anyone, and they have been told
their license has been revoked, although they have done nothing
wrong, please speak up.
> The strange thing is that nobody seems to benefit from the changes
> and the consequent FUD :(
Right. This is why this thread should not continue to try to construct
or reconstruct, or invent, what supposedly was or is legally relevant
information in some past, freely mixing the past and the present.
All we have is hints, and AdaCore notes from two different points in
time.
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2006-06-27 10:58 Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 11:48 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-27 13:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 15:16 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:14 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 20:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 16:38 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-27 17:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 0:24 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 6:09 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 7:45 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28 13:07 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:07 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-29 22:26 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30 16:46 ` Martin Krischik
2006-07-01 8:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-02 12:10 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28 20:26 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-29 17:45 ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-30 8:55 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 7:28 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28 8:07 ` No relicense everything now! (was: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?) Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 13:14 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:53 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Stephen Leake
2006-06-29 20:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-30 8:40 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 15:19 ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-29 22:06 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-30 8:46 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 15:21 ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-28 0:18 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:12 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 22:45 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 21:54 ` Björn Persson
2006-06-28 22:57 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 6:06 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 7:49 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-29 17:43 ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-27 23:10 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-28 2:23 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:40 ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-27 15:00 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 0:06 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-03 22:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-03 23:58 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 10:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-04 22:13 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 18:55 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-04 20:29 ` Simon Wright
2006-07-04 22:34 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 22:20 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-14 13:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-14 15:14 ` michael bode
2006-07-14 19:58 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-17 20:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-17 21:24 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-17 22:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-18 0:38 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-18 7:40 ` michael bode
2006-07-18 10:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-18 11:55 ` michael bode
2006-07-18 19:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-18 19:55 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-18 10:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-18 11:35 ` Revocable or non-revocable licenses from AdaCore? (Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-07-18 20:37 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-07-18 12:55 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? michael bode
2006-07-18 13:26 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-18 19:11 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-18 20:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-20 21:55 ` Björn Persson
2006-07-18 14:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-06-28 14:27 ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 15:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 15:36 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-29 7:09 ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-29 20:01 ` Björn Persson
2006-06-30 8:52 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-03 22:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-03 23:55 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 18:07 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-04 22:18 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-18 10:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-06-28 5:58 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 13:04 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 22:46 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30 7:01 ` Martin Dowie
2006-07-01 8:48 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30 8:39 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01 8:58 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-27 13:46 ` Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Alex R. Mosteo
2006-06-27 14:40 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 14:52 ` What luck we had M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:13 ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-28 13:39 ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 19:20 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 0:02 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:57 ` Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Ed Falis
2006-06-28 0:58 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 19:45 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 21:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 1:02 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 15:00 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-27 15:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 15:38 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 16:40 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-27 17:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-06-27 21:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 0:45 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 0:48 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 10:51 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-28 11:14 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-06-28 11:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 12:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 13:36 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 13:31 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 0:42 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 19:24 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 23:00 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:50 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 0:50 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:25 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 0:52 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:39 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-27 20:47 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 0:53 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 18:57 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 13:50 ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 14:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
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2006-06-29 6:12 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-06-28 19:22 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-27 18:39 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 19:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 19:39 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 20:23 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 22:53 ` Björn Persson
2006-06-28 5:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 1:29 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 1:18 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 6:07 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 17:58 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-06-28 18:17 ` Ed Falis
2006-06-28 18:55 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-30 19:55 ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 18:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:28 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-06-28 19:38 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:17 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 20:48 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 1:07 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 21:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 21:19 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 1:40 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 1:35 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 11:57 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 18:45 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 20:46 ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 23:06 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:44 ` Simon Wright
2006-07-03 18:21 ` Matthew Goulet
2006-07-04 7:21 ` Ludovic Brenta
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