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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu (Roy T. Fielding) Subject: Re: GLADE and GPL (was: what DOES the GPL really say?) Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: <5p9hgb$gsm@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 253726708 References: <33B014E3.3343@no.such.com> <5oqp9s$7vj$1@news.nyu.edu> <33B13BF6.79C7@no.such.com> <33B2B5C8.41A0@does.not.exist.com> <5ousck$6rj@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> <5p40pc$b7v@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >What exactly are you referrring to? gnatdist is of course under the GPL >as are all gnat utilities. But the runtime routines that are bound to >executable programs are indeed under the modified GPL. Please be explicit >in what you are referring to. Sorry, I now see where the confusion is coming from. The individual source files do include the exception to the modified GPL, which is something I hadn't checked. I was stopped short by the top-level README and COPYING files, which are plain GPL v2, and the lack of any other COPYING file in the Garlic subdirectory. The top-level README should mention the different terms for what is in Garlic, since they currently contradict each other (which is bad from any perspective). On a related note, there is one problem with the modified GPL. As written, it doesn't allow the recipient to redistribute the package (or, in my case, a small component of the package) under the same modified GPL. I doubt that is the intention. You could add that possibility to the list in the first sentence, i.e. -- GARLIC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- -- terms of the GNU General Public License, with or without the single -- -- exception mentioned below, as published by the Free Software Foundation; -- -- either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. -- However, it would be more appropriate from a legal perspective to make the modifications within the COPYING file, possibly renaming it GnatGPL, rather than deal with the issue of having two contradictory terms. It would probably be worth it just to avoid these types of discussions. ....Roy