From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:25:25 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:25:26 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f8c12426a4a9ebc9e4df915049c4e002"; logging-data="29926"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18y++vXfSM/2/voXNPtqqnS" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BcRQ25TepLccgDpuo009wQOcXto= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62899 List-Id: 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! -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52 https://www.adalog.fr