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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 09:09:45 +0100
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Chris M Moore <zmower@ntlworld.com> writes:

> On 24/05/2018 16:38, Dan'l Miller wrote:
>> Let us review, where Simon Wright and Chris Moore got off-track in
>> this thread:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Hey, you found one of those “GPL[-based] restrictions on the
>> generated code” that Shark8 and Simon Clubley are yearning to
>> eliminate in some hypothetical non-GNAT Ada compiler.  Yea!  Good
>> job!  Attaboy!  You only needed to find one counter-example to the
>> fallacious theorem regarding GCC having absolutely no such
>> “GPL[-based] restrictions on the generated code”.  You found one.
>> Yea!
>
> <snip>
>
> I mis-remembered.  It wasn't me directly and it wasn't "Dear boy" but
> it's there in sentiment.  I think you have some interesting ideas but
> I would appreciate it more if they were delivered in a more
> engineer-like manner and less as if in virtual combat.

Yes.

And for someone who prides himself on only using the clear meaning of
license text, he delights in tangled chains of "reasoning".