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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux
Date: 2000/06/03
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tmoran@bix.com wrote:

>   So there could have been an Ada compiler with the advantages of both
> the Gnat front-end, and Tartan's back-end, but you said no.

The "saying no" would have been more along the lines of 

   "that would violate the copyrights for this software which is
    owned by the FSF"

than

   "we are not going to let you do it"

Dale