Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available

["Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:01:30 +0000, Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:

> The versions of GLADE and GtkAda I use are GMGPL.
> GLADE is (C) 1996-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc
> GtkAda is (C) 1998-1999 Briot, Brobecker and Charlet 

Oh ****!   I've just noticed that the COPYING file in GtkAda
was switched to GPL from LGPL *years* ago, although the
individual source files weren't.

I had been looking at the copyright notices in the
individual files (GMGPL).  But it looks like the
intention since 1999 was that GtkAda and GLADE is
not covered GMGPL/LGPL :(  (was this discussed
here a while back?)

One would hope that publicly available Ada bindings and
corresponding publicly available libraries would use the
license...

Can we supply other people with our (closed) source code
for Gtk applications for them to compile and link with
GtkAda?  The source code is not a derived work of GtkAda,
and the recipient is not distributing it, so there is
no breach of the GPL on the binding.
-- 
Adrian