From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge
Date: 7 Feb 2002 06:34:57 -0800
Date: 2002-02-07T14:34:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202070634.77619f82@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de
Steffen Huber <steffen.huber@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de>...
> Hi,
>
> I tried to get one of my Ada projects into SourceForge. I
> told them that the licence used is the GMGPL, and they
> refused to host the project because this
> licence is not an official OSI licence.
Well it just goes to show that the world of free software
and open source software is not free of beaurocratic idiocy. The
general idea at source forge is to ensure open licenses that permit
sufficient minimal capabilities. Obviously it is the case that if you
take a permitted license and then give MORE freedom to the licensee it
still qualifies, but once people are afflicted by administrator's
disease, such obviously truths seem to
escape.
Why not put it in source forge with BOTH licenses, you just
make a header that says that this software is licensed under the GPL
or the GMGPL, with the user being able to
choose. That should satisfy both goals.
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2002-02-07 10:25 Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Steffen Huber
2002-02-07 14:34 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-02-08 16:31 ` Steffen Huber
2002-02-14 13:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-07 14:51 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-07 15:15 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-07 19:45 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-07 23:03 ` Frode Tennebø
2002-02-07 14:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-07 15:09 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-07 15:11 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-07 23:44 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-07 23:47 ` Ed Falis
2002-02-08 1:11 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 11:52 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-08 14:53 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-09 12:47 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-10 0:04 ` Keith Thompson
2002-02-10 12:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-10 18:28 ` David Starner
2002-02-11 14:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-11 15:04 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-11 15:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-11 16:25 ` Darren New
2002-02-11 21:36 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-11 17:37 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-02-11 17:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-12 13:26 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-02-11 19:44 ` Simon Wright
2002-02-12 19:00 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-13 10:13 ` Keith Thompson
2002-02-13 23:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-15 19:15 ` Simon Wright
2002-02-12 20:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-11 13:27 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-11 21:09 ` Keith Thompson
2002-02-12 10:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-11 15:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-12 6:20 ` David Starner
2002-02-12 10:53 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-12 11:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-12 19:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-07 15:23 ` Steffen Huber
2002-02-07 15:29 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-07 23:51 ` Al Christians
2002-02-08 1:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 3:53 ` Al Christians
2002-02-08 15:01 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-08 17:03 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-08 1:12 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-10 18:16 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-07 16:29 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-07 17:07 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-02-08 1:21 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 3:59 ` Eric Merritt
2002-02-08 12:06 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-08 12:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 5:49 ` David Starner
2002-02-08 17:47 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 11:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-08 15:34 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-07 17:11 ` David Starner
2002-03-11 12:24 ` Harri J Haataja
2002-03-11 16:15 ` Stephen Leake
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