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: 103376,7178a81f7769b555 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaOpenGL and AdaMultimedia References: <1190229087.588.18.camel@localhost> <1190351517.21235.76.camel@localhost> From: Markus E L Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:38:23 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y+2z1xiN2hv2bjtwljc/lF8Aon4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.215.170 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1190396008 88.72.215.170 (21 Sep 2007 19:33:28 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!newsfeed.bit.nl!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2084 Date: 2007-09-21T19:38:23+02:00 List-Id: Alexis Muller wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:24 +0200, Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote: >> That's not a god idea since the original is a >> BSD'style licens :-) > > The AdaOpenGL project is under the BSD license but AdaMultimedia is a > totally new project writing from scratch by reading the specs. It is not > a translation of any existing project. > > Is the GMGPL is OSI approved ? AFAIS, yes. It's GPL with a linking exception which still makes it GPL. AFAI understand (w/o looking it up) the GPL there is a clause that allows the original authors to add linking exceptions (which may subsequently dropped by redistributors -- see what AdaCore did to florist (to tighten control?)). Regards -- Markus