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,d4d70a6d53a28095 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda License Question Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:46:14 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1150717691.939423.322620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1150794064 21172 195.25.228.57 (20 Jun 2006 09:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:01:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4852 Date: 2006-06-20T10:46:14+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold a �crit : >> The only authoritative source is AdaCore, so when in doubt, ask them. >> Robert Dewar clearly said during FOSDEM that the headers, the COPYING >> and the README files have no legal force whatsoever; users are always >> required by law to ascertain the licensing terms with the licensor. The > > Which is obvious nonsense, since that would render all GPL licensing > as practiced presently invalid. Also I'd like to ask "which law"? US > law? International copyright law? > Hmmm, before making such a statement, you should know that Robert Dewar *is* a lawyer, i.e. he is a registered expert to the court about matters of software copyright. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr