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: 103376,7684e927a2475d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions... Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:37:46 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <449660f0$0$11077$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1150717184.087134.177850@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1151050924.969806.284410@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af30f8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1151185067 16424 84.175.48.248 (24 Jun 2006 21:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:37:47 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5002 Date: 2006-06-24T23:37:46+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold writes: > My _original_ problem was, that ACT doesn't state the copyright > situation on their libre-site, and that the available sources have the > GMGPL header in the ada files but not mentioning of a linking > exception in COPYING or README (compare that with florist (3.15p or > prior), which states the linking exception very clearly in the README, > which would be the traditional place to do). Just downloaded GtkAda 2.2.1 which listed as GMGPL at freshmeat. The README says: Disclaimer ========== GtkAda is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GtkAda is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General -- Public License distributed with GtkAda; see file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, -- MA 02111-1307, USA. Looks like this hasn't changed a bit since version 0.1 of GtkAda. So the questions is: has there ever been a public GMGPL version of GtkAda? Has anyone a written legally binding piece of paper signed by Robert Dewar to prove it? And does he have a proof that Dewar is authorized to sign such a paper? After all the AUTHORS file says: AUTHORS ======= The authors of GtkAda are Emmanuel Briot Joel Brobecker Arnaud Charlet And by the way: how am I supposed to know if GNAT GPL Edition is really GPLed software? Did anyone who downloaded it get a piece of paper signed by Robert Dewar which says so? -- Michael Bode