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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:23:29 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

>>  Seems like
>> this has just happend with GtkAda and GMGPL. 
>
> I'm not so sure. First, I don't think that the maintainers of Ada
> stuff in Debian will have a problem. By design, they never distribute
> anything without providing access to the source code as well.
> So GMGPL or GPL is not a legal issue at all from a Debian maintainer's
> perspective, as long as the issue is whether it is GPL or GMGPL.
>
> Now if you wanted to make a claim that in spite of messages from
> AdaCore officials to the contrary, software downloaded from the
> AdaCore site is neither GPLed nor GMGPLed, then I think everyone
> will be eager to hear what else it is.

I did not claim that Debian right now has a problem with GtkAda. I
claim that a sudden, secret and maybe retroactive (or maybe it was
between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1?, AdaCore won't tell us) change of license
happend to GtkAda. And if that happens once ...

Regarding messages from AdaCore to the contrary of anything:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050224092046/http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/

-- 
Michael Bode