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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: 22 Apr 2002 10:48:36 -0700
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0204220627.4da138a8@posting.google.com>...
> As fate would have it, today Eben Moglen, the lawyer for 
> the FSF, has put an article up at
> http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html 
> that touches on this very subject. 

Yes, indeed a useful reference, thanks Ted for posting this. Note that
in practice it is important that typical
GNU compilers, including GNU-C, g++ and GNAT are issued
with relaxed licensing on the runtime that spefically
allows uses of this runtime (or a modification of it) without imposing
GPL licensing on the result