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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-11 07:04:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.213.112.26!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1013439868 20779 129.241.83.82 (11 Feb 2002 15:04:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:04:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19864 Date: 2002-02-11T15:04:28+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:56:54 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Everywhere from a US point of view, maybe, I don't know. But over > here, the originator (need to talk about them too) of a work is > always a human beeing and can in a sense be held responsible for > what he or she has created. "Responsibility" has to be defined > but this doesn't change the fact that you have to be careful > here when you talk about your software being in the public domain. > It is not always just the software user who has to think about > consequences of using software according to some or no license > (where applicable) but also the originator. There were/are > days when governments (at least over here) require(d) every > piece of writ to be attributable to some person who could/can > be held liable, indeed you would not have wanted to sign your > pamphlet with a known name in the days of the french revolution, > the public domain was the most illegal place to put a pamphlet > in. These are roots of The Law here, no matter what > it is in the US or elsewhere, no offence intended, and software > authors are probably better of if they take greate care of what > the relevant legal practice implies. Which country do you speak of? I'm also European, but I don't recognice these things. -- Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�