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,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151422118.772405.307200@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> From: M E Leypold Date: 28 Jun 2006 02:52:26 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.243.222 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1151455572 88.72.243.222 (28 Jun 2006 02:46:12 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5164 Date: 2006-06-28T02:52:26+02:00 List-Id: Michael Bode writes: > "Ludovic Brenta" writes: > > >> 4) all licencing terms embedded in the distributions are repudiated? > > > > They never had any legal force; only a signed statement from the > > copyright holder has legal force. > > Oh, and BTW I suppose the following then also has no legal force: > > -- This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -- > -- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -- > -- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU -- > -- General Public License for more details. -- Ah yes, that has no legal force. Good idea. I'll sent ACT a bill for the time I spent debugging 3.15p. After all their exclusion of warranty had no legal force. What a absolutely /&$"/&�$!"/�$ . Regards -- Markus