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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,deac256a05c84a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:23:46 -0600 From: "Jeff C" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <41900010.D28DD400@boeing.com><9CWjd.17305$5K2.1356@attbi_s03> <1106223415.857525.176640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <41F4DB6F.4090909@mailinator.com> <35nh12F4oe4caU1@individual.net> Subject: Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:24:20 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-oEJ+w/wDl5UmgxiahUrWpfnUxk3e9n6L7Vi6ZJxX6ZDBoOI4ub1a+Mi3pyyP3+5+K0zByA2DzGC6qfA!CLgc3tHRlNhDZvsXJ733ad5jyFBb9huU7DTfFDDcpGRX+nKgLvAt2yxxhE8hxg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7986 Date: 2005-01-26T07:24:20-05:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" wrote in message news:gemini.iawt1w000svx202ss.nick.roberts@acm.org... > > In fact, it's because of AdaCore's 'not invented here' attitude that I > considered writing an alternative XML parser in the first place. > > My understanding is that, although XML/Ada is released under the GPL, any > changes I made (or anyone not an AdaCore employee) would not be merged > back > into the AdaCore branch (because that would contaminate the copyright > purity > of their code, apparently). If I were to develop a copy of XML/Ada (on > SourceForge, say), it would be a permanent fork. Of course you mean to say GMGPL there... But I am not sure why you are making that statemetn At http://libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/ Under the contributing header it says: "Contributions to this library are most appreciated, including bug reports." Now, I have only ever submitted really really small things to ACT projects (GtkAda) and have never been turned away. I suspect that if it was a large contribution that perhaps they would want copyright papers signed in some manner (either granting copyright to ACT or at least affirming that no other party had an interest). Have you ever asked about submitting something large (or better yet actually tried to submit something moderate and see what happens) I also strongly suspect that since this is a product for them that any large scale changes would get a reasonable peer review along with a reasonable number of rejections/peer review comments that would be needed before the item was accepted. This is all quite reasonable. Even on some of my small patches, the level of comments about the changes were nearly equal to the size of the patch in question (and all perfectly valid comments that were indicative of the fact they they are creating libraries for customers and long term support and I am (in this case) working on a patch at 11 PM for no apparent reason in a best effort type fashion that sometimes works out and sometimes looks like I worked on it at 11 PM)