Re: ACT and the GPL (once again), was: Re: Cairo bindings and e-mail license virus bombs

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

David Botton writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> No, David is guilty here; he omitted context, URL, attribution and
>
> Well guilty is a strong word :), as my second post said this is the
> text in case the archive goes away, the URL was in the original.
>
>> timestamp in that post, leading to your confusion.  The URL was in his
>> previous post:
>> 
>> http://lists.adacore.com/pipermail/gtkada/2009-June/003789.html
>
> Ludovic, when will the change be reflected in the Debian Jessie repo?

Never.  Jessie is frozen and a change of license does not correct a
release-critical bug, so would not be accepted anyway.  Furthermore, it
I have not yet checked whether the sources in AdaCore's Subversion
repository contain the run-time library exception or not.

You can expect updates to libgtkada, reflecting whatever new license is
in force, in Debian unstable (Sid) after the freeze, probably early
2015.  These updates will be targeted at the next stable versions of
Debian: Debian 9 "Stretch" and Debian 10 "Buster".

--
Ludovic Brenta.