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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:46:59 -0400
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In article 
<0a010647-d078-483f-ba38-685355827a61@t10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
 Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> > I was puzzled by this, too:
> >
> > <http://lists.adacore.com/pipermail/gtkada/2009-June/thread.html>
> 
> You're not the only one; I've tried to explain things in the README 
> file of most Debian packages. Here is the text I wrote for 
> libgtkada2-dev at the time of the license change in 2005:

Thank you for clarifying this, Ludovic. I had been using GtkAda 2.4.2 
for several years and only recently had the opportunity to update. I 
see I overlooked a pivotal announcement in 2005:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/3e26dfa74
1e64e5f>

Is there some heuristic for determining when the GMGPL ceased to apply: 
a date or version number, perhaps?

[http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/libg/libgtkada2/libgtkad
a2_2.8.1-5/libgtkada-glade-2.8.copyright]

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John B. Matthews
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