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: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:28:02 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6079939.ppPQ0zCOeG@linux1.krischik.com> <87ll0tyc9v.fsf@code-hal.de> <2251840.aG0VlI3NOc@linux1.krischik.com> <871x2lfvvj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <8764rl73y4.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:29:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87r7a9b58m.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9giMlZs4PgZZcMxIeLpq7fWjYbo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.240.176 X-Trace: sv3-eGVyKQU9y37h+I0r6roSSaxVgewLB0oUuHRKZfbvAUyCtIMUQ86g7bPrgPiQ+Cw5i2DLOHNHa8N1+Ub!K+AP2RJH5n/ALIPWZgNjdzPw38F+LJHRziqy0AT06f0q3LoVPg4v3vy2rMBcChBgxAKgUQeErlw= 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: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5942 Date: 2005-10-26T00:29:13+02:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu writes: >>>>>> "Ludovic" == Ludovic Brenta writes: > > Ludovic> Personally, I think that this gap can be filled by "the > Ludovic> community", provided enough people spend a little time to > Ludovic> report problems, fix a couple of bugs that are particularly > Ludovic> annoying to them, and contribute their fix to "the > Ludovic> community". This way, all fixes, as well as advice on > Ludovic> workarounds and whatnot, can be shared and benefit everyone > Ludovic> - including AdaCore, who eventually will receive the fixes. > > Ludovic, > > are you saying that if you do a fix for the GNAT GPL edition, you > will make your fix available under the GMGPL instead of the GPL? If > you make it GPL only, AdaCore will be unable to integrate it into > its own version as it would contaminate their customers code. I will not do a fix on the GNAT GPL Edition, because the vote was against it. I will concentrate on GCC from the FSF. I can't maintain both. AdaCore can integrate any patches I contribute to the FSF into GNAT GPL Edition by dropping the special exception, as allowed specifically by the GMGPL and the GPL. > I don't say that there should not be community support, of course I > agree with you on the fact that it is needed, however it only makes > sense to patch GMGPL sources if we want not to have two completely > divergent versions (AdaCore and community). Agreed. Patching the GNAT GPL Edition might make it impossible to port patches to the FSF branch (because this would require granting the special exception). The other way around (revoking the special exception) is always possible, therefore patches should be made against the FSF tree. -- Ludovic Brenta.