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Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:

> > ... the author must receive some measurable sort of
> > compensation, lest the contract be null and void.
> 
> If this is true then the contract you sign with ACT for the academic
> package is null because you don't give them anything back. What
> happens next I'm not sure. Probably your copy of the software and all
> copies made thereof must be destroyed. Insane.

Of course, none of us are lawyers .. my employers have a contract with
AdaCore under which we are supplied with support to a GPL'd software
suite which is distributed to us. So we are undoubtedly recipients,
and as a business could do what we like within the GPL. I think it's
questionable whether I as an employee have any rights in the matter
(AdaCore are quite happy for me to build my own versions, so long as
it's clear they aren't supported).

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.