Re: Ada-WinRT bindings - Alpha release

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 6:11:38 PM UTC-5, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 7:13:33 AM UTC+10, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 3:06:43 PM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> > > Alex Gamper wrote:
> > > > Dear Ada community
> > > > 
> > > > I am pleased to announce the initial alpha release of the WinRt bindings for Ada.
> > > > It is available on GitHub at the following URL
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/Alex-Gamper/Ada-WinRT
> > > 
> > > I knew it, GPLv3! Why?????
> > 
> > Yeah, Alex, I was wondering the same thing (at least a variant thereof).  Why not LGPLv3 for the .adb and .ads bindings that contribute to a Windows app (and the examples thereof)?  And then full-fledged GPLv3 for the separate (not-released) tool-executable that generates the .adb and .ads files?  [Btw, Luke, that immediately-preceding sentence regarding GPLv3 for the tool might partially answer your why question, but unfortunately misapplied to the .adb and .ads Ada bindings of WinRT components.]
> > 
> > Such adjustments to the licensing would permit someone (like me) to utilize Ada-WinRT in non-GPLed apps.
> > 
> > Alex, at some point in the foreseeable future, do you plan on releasing the tool that generates the Ada bindings?  The tool would have applicability to generating bindings to other WinRT components wrapping other libraries and within apps, not merely the WinRT/UWP framework wrapping the operating system.  People want to generate their own Ada bindings just like you did for WinRT.  You could have another GitHub repository for the binding-generator tool-executable, whose license would (continue to) be GPLv3 (while this bindings library would be re-licensed as LGPLv3).
> 
> Dear Dan'l
> 
> I am happy to change the licensing of the bindings to LGPL and will do so over
> the weekend.

  Thank you very much!

> As for the binding generator, I have as yet not decided on if I will
> release it (The code is /was hacked together and is in need of some serious
> redesign/restructure/rework :-)

Please do whatever you feel comfortable with whenever you are comfortable on the binding generator.  You are the creator; you must do what makes you proud and happy with your (awesome) creation.