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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:10:27 +0200
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M E Leypold writes:
> Ludovic Brenta writes:
>> - They refuse to give any assurances regarding copyright ownership, so
>>   I feel that I now need to go ask the authors.
>
> Please. Also It would be useful to ask AdaCore to document the
> provenience of the sources they distribute: At which distribution
> points the got the source, what are their assurances that they are
> allowed to distribute the sources under GPL and so on :-). What their
> baseline version is (that is from which version on they started to
> "contribute" to the code base).

I'd rather spend my time on the technical side of things.  I'm a
software engineer :-)

I'll see how much interest there is in GMGPL versions of libraries,
and decide then.  You can ask these authors directly if you want to.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.