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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/08/17
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In article <dewar.871738278@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

>As has been explained before, and as I think most people except Ronald
>Cole perfectly well understand, the situation is as follows.
>
>We ask people receiving wavefront versions to refrain from distributing
>them, because it is actively unhelpful to the GNAT project and to the
>development and use of GNAT (both by customers and by unsupported users)
>to have versions floating around that have not gone through the kind of
>field testing that we insist on for public release.

Do you imagine the popularity of Linux to have been damaged by the
simultaneous releases of 2.0.x (stable-track) and 2.1.x (development)
kernels?  I'd say the opposite is true even though a few newbies
are confused.  Why worry about the people who don't bother to read
the disclaimers?

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com