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"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@skynet.be> wrote in message
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> David Holm <david@realityrift.com> writes:
>
> > Gentoo GNU/Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) now offers CVS snapshots
> > of GNAT 5.0 if anyone is interested in testing it.
>
> Just curious: where did you get it?  I wasn't aware that ACT released
> GNAT 5.0 to the public.  I thought it was still reserved to paying
> customers.  Are you sure this is free software?  I am all the more
> suspicious that http://libre.act-europe.fr/gnat still mentions 3.15p
> only.
>


As david pointed out in a later post, it is in CVS.. Even if it were not
there is nothing that would prevent a paying customer from distributing the
sources..They don't have tobut they can...The "internal" versions of the
source are still GPL.