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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.)
Date: 2000/05/05
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> We definitely cannot make any guarantee if you have a source
> and a binary of GNAT that they match in the above sense. Indeed
> we have OFTEN seen people distributing GNAT in a manner that is
> inconsistent with the GPL, in that they do not bother about
> their obligation to either distribute the source, or tell people
> where to get it.

In the past, you had to be inconsistent with the GPL if you wanted
to redistribute the Windows version of GNAT in the form provided by
Ada Core Technologies because you couldn't provide the sources of the
installation program. ;)

(Don't know if this has changed recently.)