Re: AdaBrowse 1.5 available

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Thomas Wolf <t_wolf@angelfire.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.171accfee1802fbe989689@news.ip-plus.net>...
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > For the most part, they are irrelevant to Ada. When I looked into it
> > for one of my projects, the only one that seemed like it would be an
> > issue was the requirement to keep all documentation in texinfo format.
> 
> A no-can-do for me. If it ever gets into the gcc tree, somebody else
> will have to do that (and maintain it).

That was exactly my reaction when I was told about it. With a few more
months under my belt, I'm now thinking it isn't that big of a deal
though. There are apparently tools to convert texinfo into just about
any format around, including html. In fact, that seems to be the whole
point. One can use it as sort of the "sources" for the HTML docs, and
build the HTML docs as part of the system build. Now I'm not pushing
you to do this; that would be quite hypocritical, as I haven't done it
for any of my projects either. I'm just saying I personally don't see
it as such a problem after thinking about it for a while.

> > Ouch. I thought it was all GPL. That could be a serious problem.
> 
> I wasn't aware that the FSF thinks the ACL (or the Perl Artistic
> License) had problems. I just chose the ACL because it seems to work
> well for the Ada 95 Booch components.

To be precise, they have problems with the original Perl Artistic
license. They don't have big problems with the "Clarified Artistic
License", the "Artistic License 2.0" (which they say no one uses), or
the current license that Perl uses.

To see the full discussion of this, see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html .

> out, accomplish the same goals. So I changed the licenses on these
> few files (easy to do, since it's all mine -- no third parties
> involved). AdaBrowse 1.51 (now at the URL
> <http://home.tiscalinet.ch/t_wolf/tw/ada95/adabrowse/>)
> contains all these changes (code clean-up and using the GMGPL instead
> of the ACL for the generally useful files). It has also a simple 
> Makefile now. 

Great!


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