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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b315b117e4c5bae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!nsnmrro1-lo.nuria.telefonica-data.net!nsnmpen1-lo.nuria.telefonica-data.net!news.ya.com!yacom!not-for-mail From: "Manuel G. R." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Source code of large programs wanted Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:58:43 +0100 Organization: ya.com internet factory Message-ID: References: <-NidnVy-ZYqBU73fRVn-sg@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62-151-41-67.yaonline.ya.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.ya.com 1109451628 20647 62.151.41.67 (26 Feb 2005 21:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@ya.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:00:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: es-es, es, en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8502 Date: 2005-02-25T21:58:43+01:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > ... unless I heard directly from the copyright holder. > What does "heard directly" mean? I take it a posting on a web site > doesn't qualify. Perhaps a registered letter with notarized signature? > Or maybe a bank signature guarantee? If I sent you such a letter, with my > signature, stating that Visual Studio was now Open Source, would that do > the trick? What documentation was accepted for the other programs there? I don't see Debian developers accepting a source code with "All rights reserved" notice on every file. If it is released as GMGPL, it should be clear enough on the source distribution. If the copyright holder is apparently contradicting himself, then I think Debian would take the conservative decission - not including it in the distribution. -- Ada programming tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada Tutorial de programaci�n en Ada: http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programaci%C3%B3n_en_Ada