Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> 
> >  and booch, charles, AdaCL - all currently GMGPL
> > would need to to relicensed to GPL now to be used with with GNAT/GPL.
> 
> I don't think that any GMGPL sources need to be relicensed
> to be used with GNAT GPL Edition for free software work.
> The GMGPL is certainly GPL compatible.


Martin asks wether it really is. I asked the same question once her,
never got an answer (I was not clear, perhaps). The warnings reported
by martin seem to indicate otherwise (or at least a different view of
ACT on the subject).


> > And this would mean that those libs become unavailable to closed source
> > users.
> 
> But that's a consequence of using GNAT GPL edition, not of using
> the libraries? These can keep their licenses. (The GPL doesn't say
> it is time limited, and revocable; I'd be surprised to learn that
> the exception is time limited.)


No. Just reread Martins post about the license warnings popping up
(and perhaps my follow up which tries to state the problem in more
ebatract terms). The fear is, that GMGPL libs must be relicensed to
GPL to be linkable with GPL libs. And we're talking about the new
GtkAd here not the Gnat GPL.

I do not say that relicensing would be necessary, but I'd like to see
that point cleared up.

Regards -- Markus