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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0
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John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<3BC196CF.ACEA8F64@brighton.ac.uk>...
> Not being a lawyer

Then please refrain from legal opinions or guesses :-) :-)
(especially when they are wildly wrong)

, I don't know if the GPL would prevent such conditions
> being imposed on a precompiled binary made from GPL 
> source

Yes, that's the whole point of the GPL. of course it
prevents such conditions being imposed. 

So you may stop worrying