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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Clubley Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e458ff8b81bc0c159989eb0e36c6e372"; logging-data="31194"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hfdw8FQaiE/2s6/lIXGvXljwQ8cFpuGU=" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (VMS/Multinet) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y1U5wVXWW8MDti8U/U373KBExn8= X-Original-Bytes: 4494 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186858 Date: 2014-06-12T11:48:11+00:00 List-Id: On 2014-06-11, Jeffrey Carter wrote: > On 06/11/2014 12:29 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: >> >> Do you have a link for the FSF version of GtkAda please as I cannot >> find it ? I can only find the ACT version. > > I get mine from the Debian packaging. > I've just had a quick look at this. The Debian package is pure GPL, not GMGPL. It is a repackaging of the ACT libre version which is pure GPL. See https://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libgtkada2.24.1 and follow the "Copyright File" link on the right of that page. That "Copyright File" link states (note the bit about the licence change): |This package was debianized by Ludovic Brenta on |Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:18:06 +0200. | |It was downloaded from http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda |(now http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/GtkAda/). | |Upstream Authors: | Emmanuel Briot | Joel Brobecker | Arnaud Charlet | Nicolas Setton | |Copyright (C) 1998-2000 E. Briot, J. Brobecker and A. Charlet |Copyright (C) 2000-2011, AdaCore | |GtkAda is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |under terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free |Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later |version. GtkAda is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |MERCHANTABILITY -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General |Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. | |Maintainer's note: | |In a previous version of Debian, libgtkada2 2.4.0 was licensed under |the terms of the GNAT-Modified GNU General Public License (GMGPL). |This new version is licensed under the terms of the pure GPL. As a |consequence, it is no longer legal to distribute proprietary software |that incorporates this library. If your program uses GtkAda, and if |you wish your program to use licensing terms incompatible with the |GPL, you have three choices: | |- distribute your program in source form only, and require your | licensees to build it for themselves. Your sources need not be | under GPL, since they are not linked to GtkAda. | |- contact AdaCore, the upstream author, at sales@adacore.com, and | purchase a GMGPL license for GtkAda. | |- do not distribute your program at all. | |You may be tempted to retrieve the sources from AdaCore's CVS |repository. Be warned that doing so will still grant you a pure GPL |license, despite the fact that AdaCore have not yet adjusted the |licensing boilerplate in source files. In Debian, I have removed the |"special exception" language only to remove confusion. It is not I |who changed the actual license, it is AdaCore. Contact them at |libre@adacore.com for any clarification. Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world