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From: mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/08/20
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In article <dewar.871738278@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>The situation with GNAT is very much like that with the GCC snapshots.
>The GNU project strongly discourages people from distributing the
>snapshots for exactly the same reasons I give above, and generally
>we don't see the snapshots being widely distributed,

This is now false.  See the egcs project at Cygnus at:

	http://www.cygnus.com/egcs

>and that is definitely a good thing.

This is questionable, and many disagree with you.