Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: GtkAda Source: https://libre.adacore.com/libre/download/ Comment: Most of the content available on libre.adacore.com is licensed under the terms of the pure GPL, despite the fact that AdaCore have not yet adjusted some licensing boilerplates. . This is stated for example at http://lists.adacore.com/pipermail/gtkada/2009-June/003789.html. The actual license is a decision of AdaCore. Please contact them at libre@adacore.com for any clarification. . This is confirmed in COPYING and README. . However, the GTKAda user guide is licensed separately under the GNU Free Documentation License with Invariant Sections and Cover Texts, so Debian cannot distribute it. The reference manual is also excluded because its generation process relies on parts of the user manual. . In a previous version of Debian, libgtkada2 2.4.0 was licensed under the terms of the GNAT-Modified GNU General Public License (GMGPL). This new version is licensed under the terms of the pure GPL. As a consequence, it is no longer legal to distribute proprietary software that incorporates this library. If your program uses GtkAda, and if you wish your program to use licensing terms incompatible with the GPL, you have three choices: . - distribute your program in source form only, and require your licensees to build it for themselves. Your sources need not be under GPL, since they are not linked to GtkAda. . - contact AdaCore, the upstream author, at sales@adacore.com, and purchase a GMGPL license for GtkAda. . - do not distribute your program at all. . You may be tempted to retrieve the sources from AdaCore's CVS repository. Be warned that doing so will still grant you a pure GPL license, despite the fact that AdaCore have not yet adjusted the licensing boilerplate in source files. In Debian, I have removed the "special exception" language only to remove confusion. It is not I who changed the actual license, it is AdaCore. Contact them at libre@adacore.com for any clarification. Files: * Copyright: 1998-2011 Emmanuel Briot 1998-2011 Joel Brobecker 1998-2011 Arnaud Charlet 1998-2011 Nicolas Setton 2000-2011 ACT-Europe 2000 Helix Code 1997-1998 Janne Löf 2008-2009 Sam Hocevar 2010-2013 Adacore License: GPL-2+ This file 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. It 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. . On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. Files: debian/* Copyright: 2003-2013 Ludovic Brenta 2012-2014 Nicolas Boulenguez License: GPL-3+ This file 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 3, or (at your option) any later version. It 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. . On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.