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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
