Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Grace

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The license for the software is ok. Could you please submit your
project again and clarify the license status of the documents available at
http://www.adapower.net/ascl/njr05/ascl-njr05-02.zip ? The copyright notice
of ascl-njr05-02.zip:scl-lists-unbounded.ads, for instance does not really
qualify as a free documentation license. Would you consider placing these
documents under a free documentation license ?

        Thank you for your patience,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Ted Dennison <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: other
 > Other License: For this effort to succeed, it will ultimately need to be a 
 > facility that all vendors will feel compelled to ship with their Ada 
 > compilers. Unfourtunately, using the GPL would actively work against that 
 > goal. Thus the general consensus has been to make the specifications (Ada\'s 
 > equivalent of C\'s .h files) public domain. Any implementations (eg: Ada\'s 
 > equivalent of C\'s .c files) we develop will be \"reference 
 > implementations\", and will be released under the same license used for the 
 > GNU Ada compiler (the fourth license listed at 
 > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#TOCGPLCompatibleLicenses ), 
 > which is commonly known in the Ada community as the GMGPL. Vendors who do 
 > not wish to abide by that license will still be free to develop their own 
 > implementations of the PD specs, but of course will have to do all the 
 > development and testing work themselves. I suspect most will just use the 
 > GMGPL implementation.
 > Package: Grace
 > System name: grace
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Grace is intended to be a devolopment project for the next level of standard 
 > Ada libraries. Ada is generally considered a superior software development 
 > language, but many feel they still can\'t use it for serious work due to its 
 > compartively weak support library (compared to C++\'s STL and MFC, and 
 > Java\'s assorted libraries for example). Ada has some good stuff in its 
 > standard library, there just isn\'t enough of it. It needs to be dramaticly 
 > extended, but there isn\'t a big company in the Ada community (like AT&T and 
 > Microsoft for C++ or Sun for Java) to lead the effort. So we feel the Ada 
 > user community itself must step up and fill the void, to create a more 
 > complete Ada standard library.
 > 
 > The first goal is a software component library. We intend to take on other 
 > subprojects as well, but growth in the amount of subprojects must be managed 
 > well. We do not want to take on too much at once. There is great interest in 
 > the Ada community in this project, but our community is relatively small, so 
 > a rapid dispersion of focus could be fatal to the whole effort. Discussions 
 > and organization has mostly been carried out in comp.lang.ada. The current 
 > focus is on producing a standard list component. That has been accomplished, 
 > and now we need a place to host the results and to help facilitate our 
 > further efforts in a more organized fashion.
 > 
 > This project has been going on for about 4 moths now. I\'d say I\'ve seen at 
 > least 15 different people participating, including 3 submitting code. The 
 > only web resources available at this point are at 
 > http://www.adapower.net/ascl/ . However, as I said, most discussions so far 
 > have occured on the comp.lang.ada newsgroup.
 > 

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