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!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:45:14 -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: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:45:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87zmfxkqsr.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x3n1vnswO0GkNVgRZ51pxiU+m8c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.193.201 X-Trace: sv3-dcpgBru3W8hfZtOYqsLVrR0qAuHUx1vrs3/SSL5h8hmktBh7iXYr7AtiIuUyqZV/MJYTPuUa/3ykuek!S1egUxGWdLfm4QvOhDkZIYgJNB2uv2yDfxn1KYwG7W9G2/pGR7sOJo+96nvKBNTLcwvjsp77cbE= 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:5243 Date: 2006-06-28T21:45:24+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold writes: > Ed Falis writes: > >> M E Leypold wrote: >> >> >> AUnit was written by Ed Falis, an AdaCore employee. Only source is >> >> AdaCore, so switch to pure GPL. >> > >> > Also a tool, wouldn't get linked into an executable for the customer: >> > In my eyes GPL is OK here. >> >> Note that AUnit has been GPL from its first release in 2000. Since its >> intent is user "in-house" testing rather than any kind of >> re-distribution of test cases, I considered it the appropriate license. > > Ed, I agree. > > Tools for inhouse use are appropriately GPL IMHO. We don't want anyone > to run away with tools chain after all :-). The issues here -- where > all that started -- are different (not with new licenses but with the > possible retroactive change of old licenses, license changes on > unchanged source, missing or misleading license notices and a general > amnesia). > > I'm sure you'll see that after wading through all that fallout. > > Regards -- Markus Ed is the author of AUnit, he was just correcting an oversight I made in the post that started this thread. He is well aware of all the issues involved. BTW, thanks for the correction, Ed. -- Ludovic Brenta.