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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: AdaCore takes positive steps with virus free GtkAda
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 12:10:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-12-06, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2015-12-06, David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>> I am extremely pleased to see AdaCore has posted non-virused
>> versions of some of their libraries on github. https://github.com/AdaCore
>>
>
> It's certainly a start, but before any gets too excited about seeing
> GtkAda on GitHub check the licence - it's still GPL. :-(
>

Following Michael's observation, I took another look and a couple of
files I checked in the source code does indeed appear to have the
runtime exception added back into it.

I was going by the readme which has no mention of this in the licence
section.

The question now is: can we trust ACT to not suddenly remove the
exception in the same way as they did around a decade ago ? Comments ?

Simon.

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