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: 2002-02-11 13:36:26 PST
Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge
Date: 11 Feb 2002 13:36:25 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202111336.7a23cb3c@posting.google.com>
References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de>
 <slrna655ki.sg.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <a3u5f2$8f3$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
 <slrna67f4p.qd.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <a40op1$ddk$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
 <slrna6a6n3.q8.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <yecg04a9p7m.fsf@king.cts.com> <a45nq0$d1b$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
 <a46e3s$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <a48m3m$qaj$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1013463386 13921 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2002 21:36:26
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2002 21:36:26 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19887
Date: 2002-02-11T21:36:26+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<a48m3m$qaj$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
>
> (some dozens of lines of legal interpretation, not 
>  duplicated here ...)
> (THIS IS NOT, NOT EVEN BY IMPLICATION, LEGAL ADVICE :-)
> 
> - georg


I have a suggestion to people here. I advise against reading anything
in CLA about copyright law. You will have
too much difficulty distinguishing correct information from
entirely incorrect information.

I suggest reading the Berne convention. The US and the 
European countries are all signatories. I will tell you
what has been agreed on wrt copyright issues between the
countries.

(Robert is a bit dubious about this convention, since he
thinks it may violate the US constitution, but until the
courts rule, it is effectively the law of the land here
as well as in Europe :-)