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From: "Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?
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Date: 2004-03-29T17:42:47+01:00

> Excuse me, but this is most assuredly *not* "pirating". All versions
> of GNAT, including GNAT pro, are released under the GPL. Indeed it
> could hardly be otherwise, since it is a derived work of GCC. It is
> completely legal, fair, and honest to distribute GNAT Pro to whomever
> you like, and ACT would be in breach of the GPL if they acted to
> disallow such a thing (not that they would, of course).

You may be right, but strictly not for the reason you give. If ACT owns the
copyright to GNAT Pro (which I think they do), they are perfectly entitled
to distribute GNAT Pro under a different license than GPL (which I think
they don't), including one that makes it piracy to give copies to friends.