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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Michael B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaCore takes positive steps with virus free GtkAda Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 14:32:35 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2073ffc2-ca04-4991-ad34-6c0755aa6aab@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aVRLAA69Owic+4DHNqu6JQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28668 Date: 2015-12-06T14:32:35+01:00 List-Id: 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