From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:25:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sj4kt6$t76$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sj4ahc$e05$1@gioia.aioe.org>
Le 30/09/2021 à 14:27, Luke A. Guest a écrit :
>> If you are talking about the official ASIS specs ("like the packages
>> in the Ada RM"), they are part of an ISO standard, and as such under
>> ISO copyright. However, in the case of APIs, ISO allows their use by
>> any implementation (otherwise, they would be useless).
>
> Exactly, same as the ARM packages.
>
>> This has of course nothing common with the GPL or any other open license.
>>
>
> But the issue is, if the specs for the extended ASIS have only been
> released under GPL, they are useless to any non-gpl language
> implementations as their use infects that implementation causing further
> issues.
>
Right, currently AdaCore is the owner of these specifications. A
standardization effort would need a transfer of copyright, I hope that
AdaCore wouldn't object.
BTW, talking of copyright: LibAdalang has no header comment telling the
copyright status, therefore it is by default propriatory AdaCore!
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2021-09-27 10:06 How to challenge a GCC patch? J-P. Rosen
2021-09-27 11:23 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-09-27 14:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-28 7:38 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-09-29 16:26 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-09-29 19:04 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-29 23:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 6:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:53 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 8:13 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:26 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 10:54 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 12:27 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 15:25 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2021-10-01 0:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 0:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 0:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 9:41 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-02 9:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-04 12:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-14 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-14 6:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:53 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 8:16 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:28 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 10:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 12:27 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 15:28 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 6:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-01 0:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 9:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-02 9:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-04 12:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-14 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-14 6:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 5:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:29 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-09-30 7:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:21 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-10-01 9:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-01 12:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:28 ` Fabien Chouteau
2021-09-27 12:48 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-27 14:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-28 6:55 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-30 6:44 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-29 8:58 ` nobody in particular
2021-09-29 9:34 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-29 10:03 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-29 11:03 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-29 11:07 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-29 18:58 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
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