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 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: From: Brian May Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:25:47 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GRoXJe0Ta0nDyxa/GbE2XSVRbb4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au X-Trace: news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com 1127003116 202.173.153.89 (18 Sep 2005 10:25:16 +1000) X-Complaints-To: abuse@pipenetworks.com X-Abuse-Info: Please forward all headers to enable your complaint to be properly processed. Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4852 Date: 2005-09-18T10:25:47+10:00 List-Id: >>>>> "tmoran" == tmoran writes: tmoran> From "The Software Developer's and Marketer's Legal tmoran> Companion" "Software copyright protection does not cover tmoran> functional elements that are inherent in the idea of a tmoran> particular application." So if you look at their patches tmoran> and see that one consists of initializing a previously tmoran> uninitialized variable, I would expect it would be tmoran> completely legitimate for you to say "ah, the bug was the tmoran> uninitialized variable so I will insert code, not copied tmoran> from them, whose function is to initialize it." If one tmoran> person analyzed their code to figure out what function it tmoran> performs, then told a coder to implement that function, tmoran> that would be OK. But then IANAL. Would it be OK to run the test suite (or whatever it is called) from the GPL version on your new non-GPL version to ensure it is "correct"? -- Brian May