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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@ridgenet.net>
Subject: Re: gnat-3.10
Date: 1997/06/22
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> We have a number of large customers on HPUX. They were using 3.09 when it
> was the current release, most of them have by now switched to 3.10 which is
> the current product release. As usual, this will be released publicly in
> the future.

GNAT is based on GCC, right?  What section of the GPL are you relying
on to justify making binary releases of modified GPL software to your
paying clients and refusing to make the source code available to the
public at the same time?  Under Section 3 of the GPL, it seems clear
that once you distribute an object code work based on a GPL'd program,
you must release the source code concurrently.

And why hasn't the text of the GPL been included in your previous
source distributions?

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