Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch

["Carroll, Andrew" <andrew.carroll@okstate.edu>]

>> Georg quoted
>> - All software downloaded from AdaCore is pure GPL, no matter what
the
>>  headers say.

If this were true then why can't "a person" just change the headers to
say whatever they want the headers to say?

Also, if this the common understanding then why is this understanding
not written in the "free software" licensing headers (for any level of
"General Purpose")?

Sounds to me like the issue isn't what the headers say/contain or
complying with the headers.  The problem is in the fact that there's
really no regulation of what the headers say or who complies or doesn't.

Compare this issue with say the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
If my right to free speech was just a superficial header (had no
regulation) then the right to free speech I claim could be contended
either way with no one having a basis for their argument other than a
superficial header that was never enforced or regulated.

Just my two cents worth.

Andrew