From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: AdaCore takes positive steps with virus free GtkAda
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 12:14:05 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2015-12-06T12:14:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n418qc$a0m$3@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n4187q$pou$1@speranza.aioe.org
On 2015-12-06, Michael B. <michaelb@example.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/15 03:33, David Botton wrote:
>> I am extremely pleased to see AdaCore has posted non-virused versions of some of their libraries on github. https://github.com/AdaCore
>
> Non-virused? GtkAda on Github contains a file "COPYING.RUNTIME" which
> seems to be a runtime exception. Does that mean, binaries of programs
> using GtkAda from Github can be distributed without releasing the sources?
>
On initial inspection, yes. However all the RTL source code would need to
be checked to make sure the exception is in place. My main concern now is
can we be sure ACT won't pull the exception overnight as they did about a
decade ago ? (IIRC, it was around the GtkAda 2.4 timeframe)
Simon.
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2015-12-06 2:33 AdaCore takes positive steps with virus free GtkAda David Botton
2015-12-06 12:02 ` Simon Clubley
2015-12-06 12:10 ` Simon Clubley
2015-12-07 9:31 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-12-06 12:04 ` Michael B.
2015-12-06 12:14 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2015-12-06 13:32 ` Michael B.
2015-12-06 15:06 ` Saša Janiška
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