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,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:07:47 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:07:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87irmmpas3.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rVKS/tMpDirYW5+lZA2bPcZNgFE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.244.104 X-Trace: sv3-jaKWR880A1PYsrabwdd6RAdLz+hUd8SJ+3nkQa4H9zd4Y3L2cxR0CW+8Xj6jUmLk7axofMn5zYnVAK3!7KvgJBEAASS2QWom0aExm8qpRwY0uixNbgEH2eP+WAMGJ2lBbIVK8F71qqLk1AOpd3jHCgpMce4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5130 Date: 2006-06-27T23:07:56+02:00 List-Id: Michael Bode writes: > How can any AdaCore software then remain in Debian at all? How is any > Debian user supposed to know any AdaCore software is GPL if file > headers are invalid? How do *you* know? You have nothing written and > signed and the authors deny any validity of anything written in the > software itself. This is becoming metaphysical. Cogito, ergo sum, and all that :) Your argument applies to all software that is not at least cryptographically signed by their author, and accompanied by a signed license statement :) (note: software distributed by Debian _is_ cryptographically signed, but that from upstream is not. AdaCore make no claim as to the license terms for software I download from other sites than AdaCore. And I don't think they can retroactively revoke the licenses that Debian received when I initially downloaded the software from NYU, AdaCore, or other places. But IANAL. -- Ludovic Brenta.