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!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny05.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail From: Ed Falis Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Pineapple News 0.9.13 [PLAID BETA], BeOS (Intel) 6.2.0 X-Program-URL: http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ X-Registered-To: Edward Falis Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:57:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.22.167.190 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny05 1151434620 70.22.167.190 (Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:57:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:57:00 EDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5102 Date: 2006-06-27T18:57:00+00:00 List-Id: 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