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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe4-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:27:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe4-win.ntli.net 1126805238 80.4.127.115 (Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:27:18 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:27:18 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4732 Date: 2005-09-15T17:27:18+00:00 List-Id: 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