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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other
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Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:

> "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>> M E Leypold wrote :
>>> Ludovico: If GtkAda 2.4.0 has been acquired before 2005/02, presumably
>>> from libre2.act-europe.fr, and the past has not changed, why don't you
>>> let the license as GMGPL?
>>
>> But I do; the switch to pure GPL will only affect future versions.
>
> I just want to know your opinion: Sarge contains GtkAda 2.4.0 which
> you obtained at a time when AdaCore called it GMGPL software. There is
> no new released version of GtkAda but now 2.4.0 is called GPL. What
> version will be in Etch? The same 2.4.0 as in Sarge but under GPL
> (which could also be GMGPL), 2.4.0 as downloaded today from
> libre2... (which then is GPL anyway) or some newer version from CVS?

A newer version from CVS, under GPL.  That will be version 2.8.1,
which has yet to be tagged in the repository.

Since yo asked for my opinion, here it is: you can use version 2.4.0
(currently in Sarge) under the terms of the GMGPL.  The change of
license from AdaCore does not affect the software you get from Debian;
it only affects the software I will get from AdaCore in the future.
Even if that is not true, I doubt very much that AdaCore would sue
anyone over this issue.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.