Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: polyorb Authors: PolyORB is primarily developed by Jerome Hugues, Thomas Vergnaud, Khaled Barbaria, Laurent Pautet (ENST Paris), and Thomas Quinot (AdaCore). Fabrice Kordon (LIP6) also participates in the project. Vadim Godunko regularly contributes by submitting patches. To email developers : polyorb-devel@lists.adacore.com. Sources: http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/polyorb/ Comment: All 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 the licensing boilerplate in source files. . 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. . . Version 2014 of PolyORB is shipped with a verbatim copy of the GPL-3 in the top directory. . Maintainer's note: . PolyORB is licensed under the terms of the pure GPL. As a consequence, it isn't legal to distribute proprietary software that incorporates this library. If your program uses PolyORB, 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 PolyORB. . - Contact AdaCore, the upstream author, at sales@adacore.com, and purchase a GMGPL license for PolyORB. . - Do not distribute your program at all. . You may be tempted to retrieve the sources from AdaCore's subversion 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, the "special exception" language has been removed only to remove confusion. It is not the Debian package maintainers who changed the actual license, it is AdaCore. Contact them at libre@adacore.com for any clarification. Files: * Copyright: (C) 1999-2012, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GPL-3+ Files: debian/* Copyright: (C) 2009 Reto Buerki (C) 2008-2014 Xavier Grave (C) 2017 Nicolas Boulenguez License: GPL-3+ License: GPL-3+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . This program 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. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 file.