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From: "Michael B." <michaelb@example.com>
Subject: Re: AdaCore takes positive steps with virus free GtkAda
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 14:32:35 +0100
Date: 2015-12-06T14:32:35+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n41ddh$616$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n418qc$a0m$3@dont-email.me

On 12/06/15 13:14, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On initial inspection, yes. However all the RTL source code would need to
> be checked to make sure the exception is in place.

Well, that's nice :-)

> 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)

We can't be sure. But at least it can't be done unnoticed. With a public 
Git repository it is always possible to determine if and when a license 
change occurred.
On the other hand, this runtime exception doesn't look like an accident. 
I guess if they publish their sources under this license, they will 
stick to it for a while.

Michael


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-06 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2015-12-06 13:32     ` Michael B. [this message]
2015-12-06 15:06       ` Saša Janiška
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