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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!feeder.news-service.com!proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp4-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:27:46 +0200 From: Preben Randhol To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO? References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151434144.2179.36.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1151434144.2179.36.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: PVV X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.17.134 NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2006 16:29:01 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1151504941 nnrp4-2.free.fr 9937 88.191.14.223:56580 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5220 Date: 2006-06-28T16:29:01+02:00 Georg Bauhaus wrote on 27/06/2006 (20:50) : > 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." > > So the release of a modified GtkAda may drop the > exception without consulting the originators. > I can't say whether or not the members of the above list > like the new facts. I don't like it. I contributed to a GMGPL project not a pure GPL project. Anyway, what I will do for the future is to use any license other than GPL. Now, I guess I need to spend a bit time to find a license compatible with GPL but without the viral part. I guess the BSD license is one candidate. I guess I also have to read the Linux Format article about GPL 3. Note that many programs are distributed with GPL saying the program is licensed under (L)GPL 2.0 or later version of your choice. I don't know what it entails, but if one keep it open like that one risk running into more trouble when RMS makes a new version... Just for the record I'm not against GPL per se, just that I don't like posibility that one at some point end up in a quagmire where one cannot make anything without a GPL license. That is not Freedom. Also the article had an interview with the Apache developer and his views on licensing since Apache is not under GPL. [1] Link to the issue, unfortunately not available on the net: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5#80 One big question though. What is /where can on find the license of the gcc - GNU Compiler Collection? Does the gcc have an exception so one can make non-GPL programs with it? Preben