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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:04:36 -0500
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Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> You may be right, but strictly not for the reason you give. If ACT owns the
> copyright to GNAT Pro (which I think they do), they are perfectly entitled
> to distribute GNAT Pro under a different license than GPL (which I think
> they don't), including one that makes it piracy to give copies to friends.

No. GNAT is an Ada compiler built upon existing GCC technology,
and is absolutely a derived work of pre-existing GPLed software.