Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:00 +0200, M E Leypold wrote:
> 
> >   # Alex Bykat who helped us compile GtkAda 0.2 on Solaris 2.5.
> >   # ...
> >   # Preben Randhol who has contributed several patches, in particular for porting gate to glade-2.
> 
> > Useful, this, isn't it?
> 
> Could make a change if members of the above list decided to
> make a GMGPL Edition from their earlier work.
> But just in case, this isn't useful as a licensing argument.
> A quote from the GNU site illustrates:


> "If you modify this code, you may extend this exception to your version
> of the code, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to
> do so, delete this exception statement from your version."

Wonderful. Now tell me what rights ACT had to strip the linking
exception from most files of florist. Please do that after diffing GPL
florist against 3.15p.

Also, why the GtkAda license changed w/o any change in source (2.4.0).

Thanks -- Markus

> So the release of a modified GtkAda may drop the
> exception without consulting the originators.

Which makes GMGPL it inferior to LGPL. :-) You contribute under
condition X and are never sure wether and when it will change to
condition Y.

> I can't say whether or not the members of the above list
> like the new facts.

Nor can I.

Regards -- Markus