Re: GtkAda License Question

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

M E Leypold a �crit :
> So all current practice of distributing GPL software is flawed insofar
> as the COPYYING and README files don't establish a binding agreement
> between the receiver and the author of the software? So the receiver
> has actually find the author (or copyright holder) to ascertain the
> licensing terms and if he finds him, it might be that the copyright
> holder decides that today there are different licensing terms for this
> applicant?
> 
COPYING and README are not *proofs*, that's what he meant. Anybody can 
take propriatory software and redistribute it with a COPYING file (or 
change the headers); this won't make the software free. What Robert said 
is that if you want legal assurance that the software is free, you need 
a signed letter from the author.
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