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-Thread: 103376,18e682cb937b2c58 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Update to AdaGPGME and libgpg-error References: <3atkviF6e5b9nU1@individual.net> <3av1vhF6bo85jU1@individual.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <86S2e.12014$S46.4530@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:33:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.13.212 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1112272388 209.165.13.212 (Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:33:08 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:33:08 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10187 Date: 2005-03-31T12:33:08+00:00 List-Id: Its important to cover these things because many people/companies have concerns about license infection. They want to know that if they are using your tools/utilities that this does not force upon them whatever license you personally wanted to use. Being explicit about where your software/rights ends and the other guy's begins is a good thing. MDC Simon Wright wrote: > > > For example, see the header comment on bison.simple: > > /* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a > Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction. > This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation > in version 1.24 of Bison. */ > > I wrote the following for XSL stylesheets: > > As a special exception, when portions of this file are copied by > a stylesheet processor into an output file, this file does not by > itself cause the resulting file to be covered by the GNU General > Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any > other reasons why the output file might be covered by the GNU > Public License. > > which was intended as 'GMGPL for stylesheets'. I suspect I was going a > bit further than really necessary ... > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "'Shut up,' he explained." -- Ring Lardner ======================================================================