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From: Samuel Mize <smize@link.com>
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/27
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Date: 1997-06-27T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > However, company decisions are constraints on what we engineers
> > can do.  .....  I can't incorporate
> > GPL'd code. At least, I can't do so and still be doing the job
> > they're paying me to do.
...
> On the other hand, as I repeatedly note, it is definitely the case that
> GNAT runtime code with the modified GPL that explicitly expands the
> permissions of what you can do with this copyrighted code is another
> issue entirely.

Yes.  It is another issue entirely.  I don't believe that Wes
ever mentioned the GNAT runtime or the modified GPL.

Samuel Mize