Re: Versions of the Ada Reference Manual in Debian

[Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013, at 2:48, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:06:41PM +0200, Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> Adaic provides HTML browsable versions of older standards at [1],
> giving the impression that the manuals are available as free software.
> However, packaging is not trivial, as you can see at [2].
...
> - Formatting them requires either non-free tools, either a formatter
>   whose source are only available via the CVSWeb interface (no ZIP).
>   This interface handles casing and new lines poorly. Even finding the
>   right version of each source file is tricky.

I agree that CVSWeb interface is not optimal and getting the source
code is tricky, but the formatter tool should be under GPLv3 these days.

For example, see
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/arm/progs/arm_file.adb?rev=1.3
    -- ARM_Form is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    -- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
    -- as published by the Free Software Foundation.

And if you contact the author as listed in that source file, he
probably can create a distributable zip package of the source code
for you (which then can be hosted elsewhere since it is under
GPLv3).

-- 
  Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/