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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes
 in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition?
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 17:22:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-05-04, Dan'l Miller <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11:20:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lorenzen wrote:
>> You buy a support contract for a maximum number of developers based on the "honour system"
>> i.e. you don't cheat.
>
> I am pretty sure that RMS would not consider the software-freedom rights overtly & meticulously granted under the wording of the GMGPL as ?cheating?.

Note that he said "support contract", not software. That's what is being
sold here if I understand correctly.

Simon.

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