Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch

["Matthew Goulet" <blueherring0@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> I received detailed answers from AdaCore's Robert Dewar and Arnaud
> Charlet regarding the licenses of software downloaded from their
> servers.  In summary:
>
> ...
>
> - AdaBindX [3], a binding to X11 and LessTif by Hans-Frieder Vogt
>   which is under GMGPL.  X11 is under X11 (MIT) license, and
>   LessTif[4] is under LGPL.  But AdaBindX has not been updated since
>   2000, and is not portable.  And not as good-looking as GTK+.
>   According to Debian's Popularity Contest [5], this package has zero
>   users, so I am tempted to drop it from Etch.  Speak up if you want
>   me to keep it.
>
> ...
>
> Thoughts, comments, offers to help?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Hello there,
  Long time listener, first time caller, so to speak.  Just wanted to
say I've found this whole thread quite interesting and intructive, even
though the subject itself still contains so much doubt.

  Also I wanted to say to Ludovic specifically, I'm actually someone
who's using the AdabindX libraries.  Perhaps I'm the only one :-)  As
for popularity contest, I use noatime, so it doesn't work for me.
Regardless, one person isn't enough reason to keep a package, but I
nevertheless wanted to say thanks for all the work on GNAT for Debian.

  I hope to be able to post meaningfully here in the future, its nice
to read postings with intellect, especially about my favorite language
:-)

-Matt