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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-07 06:51:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Date: 7 Feb 2002 06:51:58 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0202070651.926c0bf@posting.google.com> References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1013093519 6195 127.0.0.1 (7 Feb 2002 14:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Feb 2002 14:51:59 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19704 Date: 2002-02-07T14:51:59+00:00 List-Id: Steffen Huber wrote in message news:<3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de>... > 3.) Convince OSI to add the GMGPL as an approved licence - anyone tried > that? I did some inquiries on it back when ESR first set up the web page. I discovered that the meer mention of Ada is a great way to get ESR to quit answering your emails. :-( However, it looks like they have a mailing list to handle license discussion now (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html ), so it shouldn't be so tough to get discussion about it anymore. But OSI's kind of a joke these days anyway. I'd just try to explain to your SourceForge contact that it uses the same license at the FSF's own GNU Ada compiler. Its listed on GNU website as a GPL-compatable free software license (its on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html, imaginatively titled "The license of the run-time units of the GNU Ada compiler"). That ought to be good enough for anyone. If that *isn't* good enough for them, then you are clearly dealing with someone who's a bit clueless, so try to ask for someone a bit more senior to "help resolve the issue". -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html All right; who's been cooking hot dogs in the Warp Drive?