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Subject: Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes
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Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

> There are two code bases; the AdaCore one and the FSF one.

Pretty sure there's one code base, with a branch that AdaCore use to
support their customers, and another for FSF GCC. The fact that merges
are one-way doesn't negate this.

> The FSF assignment controls the FSF code base only.

When I was a supported AdaCore customer, the source (3.16a1, at least 15
years ago) had (c) FSF with GMGPL extensions.

Further evidence: now that gnatcoll is on github, you can look at the
sources for yourself[1]. In particular, note that COPYING.RUNTIME was
added 7 years ago!

[1] https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatcoll-core