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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-14 05:40:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge Date: 14 Feb 2002 08:35:57 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Message-ID: References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> <5ee5b646.0202070634.77619f82@posting.google.com> <3C63FD52.FB404836@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1013694028 22840 128.183.220.71 (14 Feb 2002 13:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: dscoggin@cne-odin.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2002 13:40:28 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20002 Date: 2002-02-14T13:40:28+00:00 List-Id: Steffen Huber writes: > Your comment has made me thinking again about the licence issue. Does the > GMGPL say anything about the licence that must be used for directly > derived work? GPL or GMGPL? Yes. Go read it! Hmm. I couldn't find a direct reference online. Here's the license part of a header of a file in SAL (which is GMGPL): -- SAL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it -- under terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the -- Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any -- later version. SAL 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. You should have received a -- copy of the GNU General Public License distributed with SAL; see -- file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 -- Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. -- -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from -- SAL, or you link SAL object files with other files to produce -- an executable, that does not by itself cause the resulting -- executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This -- exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the -- executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License. The GPL is at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html -- -- Stephe