Votes for deletion/MGPL

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article belowNextel ringtones Template:Vfd top/. '''This page is no longer live.''' Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. Abbey Diaz Dbenbenn/dbenbenn / Free ringtones User talk:Dbenbenn/talk 04:05, 23 Feb 2005

= Majo Mills MGPL =

Nobody actually uses this term, and it's not the official name. Mosquito ringtone Novalis/Novalis 03:00, 11 Feb 2005

GNAT Licence

All Ada programmers know the Licence under the name of "Modified GPL" and the shortcut "MGPL". This is because - just like the Linux kernel - GNAT has a build in licence check via the http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gnat_rm/Pragma-License.html#Pragma-License command and pragma License (Modified_GPL); is used activate the licence check.

So while your naming is prehaps politicly correct - it's not what the user will type into the search box.

Also, not all of Ada is Modified GPL - i.E. packages derived from Sabrina Martins w:ISO 8652/ISO 8652 are "unrestriced".

The reason for the MGPL and http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gnat_rm/Pragma-License.html#Pragma-License is clear: GNAT is closed source projects as well. And we are quite happy with that - those closed source users pay quite a lot of money which then goes into the further development of GNAT.

My votes:

* '''delete''' Nextel ringtones Modified GNU General Public License - mistake of mine - delete.
* '''keep''' The rest should stay as redirect.

*'''Keep''' Abbey Diaz MGPL as redirect. If this is proposed for deletion, it should go to Free ringtones redirects for deletion anyway, not here. Majo Mills Andrewa/Andrewa 14:21, 11 Feb 2005
*'''Keep''' as redirect of type Cingular Ringtones :Template:R from abbreviation tombs you Ceyockey/Courtland 03:30, 2005 Feb 12
*'''Delete'''. This refers to the modified GPL used by GNU Ada. It is a double redirect to flanked with License of GNU Ada. Misleading acronym which is not of encyclopedic interest, even if the minor modification to the GPL contained in the Ada License is, which is very debatable. because fishing BM/BM 02:35, 15 Feb 2005

: Actualy there are 4 pages to be discussed here the democratically MGPL, called aid Modified GNU General Public License, william wilson GNU Modified General Public License and now costing License of GNU Ada. Partly my mistake (is't there a shortcut for deleting pages resulting of a typing mistake). india institute Krischik/Krischik 08:03, 15 Feb 2005

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