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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> M E Leypold writes:
> > Ludovic Brenta writes:
> >> - They refuse to give any assurances regarding copyright ownership, so
> >>   I feel that I now need to go ask the authors.
> >
> > Please. Also It would be useful to ask AdaCore to document the
> > provenience of the sources they distribute: At which distribution
> > points the got the source, what are their assurances that they are
> > allowed to distribute the sources under GPL and so on :-). What their
> > baseline version is (that is from which version on they started to
> > "contribute" to the code base).
> 
> I'd rather spend my time on the technical side of things.  I'm a

Me too.

> software engineer :-)

So am I. Unfortunately clean beaselines seem to be required to sort
that mess out, excapt if you want to go to GPL in all aspects (which I
won't, I'll rather drop Ada).

> I'll see how much interest there is in GMGPL versions of libraries,
> and decide then.  You can ask these authors directly if you want to.

I'll poll at c.l.a within the next week on how many people are
intrested in GMGPL baselines. If there is intrest I'll try to
establish them / ask authors.

If you want to poll for intrest in GMGPL versions of the libraries,
please do so.

Regards -- Markus