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,d4d70a6d53a28095 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda License Question Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:11:52 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1150717691.939423.322620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1150912868 9272 195.25.228.57 (21 Jun 2006 18:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:01:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4877 Date: 2006-06-21T19:11:52+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr