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: 103376,752a3fab42ce9726 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!koehntopp.de!news.szaf.org!morpheus.pingos.org!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: Answer of Request to AdaCore on licensing Status of GtkAda 2.4.0 Date: 26 Jul 2006 14:54:00 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <1153845422.892600.122790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1153907895.074574.150970@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1153912097.112009.46160@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1167e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: online.de 1153918461 12428 217.225.22.126 (26 Jul 2006 12:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:54:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5933 Date: 2006-07-26T14:54:00+02:00 List-Id: "Ludovic Brenta" writes: > I have received only three responses (in private), none of which > contained a definitive statement offering help. I conclude that nobody > cares enough to spend the time necessary to maintain the GMGPL > libraries (or else, they think I'll just do the work for them, for > free). So, unless someone steps up, I will simply replace the old GMGPL > versions with the newer pure-GPL ones. Those who need GMGPL libraries > will have to stick with Sarge, or become Debian maintainers themselves > and reintroduce the GMGPL libraries under different names. I will talk about GtkAda only because that's the only lib that I've used so far and therefore I don't know if there are different situations for the other libs. There is now even more confusion than before. 1. First I read what you heard from Adacore regarding GMGPL: 2.4.0 downloaded before day X: GMGPL 2.4.0 downloaded after day X: GPL any later version: GPL 2. Then I read what Markus heard from Adacore: any version: GPL 3. Then I read what Björn Persson heard from Adacore: versions packaged with GNAT GPL: GPL versions packaged separate and CVS version: no comment globally no change in license politics file headers are correct Add 2 and 2 and you get version from CVS : GMGPL Depending on what you want to believe, choose from above. If I were a distribution maintainer, I would do the same thing you do. If I were interested in an up to date GMGPL version I'd go with 3. and download from CVS. If I were paranoid I'd go with 2. and couldn't even use 2.4.0 from Sarge for CSS development. Since there is seemingly not much interest in a 2.4.0 GMGPL version when the GPL version is at 2.8.x and maybe even such a thing can't exist (according to 2. above) for me the question simply is: can I take the GtkAda sources from Sarge and compile them in Etch and roll my own package (which would then forever stay at 2.4.0)? Probably yes, I guess or is there any code in 2.4.0 that doesn't compile with gnat 4.1? The other question would be: would it make more sense to fork an independent GMGPL GtkAda or join the GNAVI/GWindows project and work on the GTK+ port of GWindows?