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Date: 2001-10-08T12:38:30+02:00

On  8/10, John English wrote:
| David Botton wrote:
| > 
| > Fantastic! I had misunderstood and thought that ACT would no longer be
| > making public releases and public packages would become dependant on
| > volunteers building their packages from the gcc sources...
| 
| ...or would, like Perl/Python/Tcl, have Windows binaries available
| from Active State with a restrictive license that makes them freely
| downloadable but which prevents them being redistributed to third
| parties... :-(

Please do not spread FUD.

This is *not* doable with GNAT. ACT does not hold the copyright on GNAT
sources, and thus is not allowed to make any change to the license. Only
the FSF, which is the copyright holder, would be allowed to distribute
GNAT under a more restrictive license.