Re: Well, they kept that quiet!

[Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 8:09:04 AM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> It's not on their blog yet, but they sneacked in this onto GitHub:
> 
> https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm
> 
> Will require the gprbuild from GitHub by the looks of it as well, unless you compilers.xml has support
> already inside for GNAT_LLVM as of June:
> 
> https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild/search?q=llvm&unscoped_q=llvm
> 
> This shall be interesting...

Well, for strict-GPLv3-licensed Ada-sourced apps & libraries, yes, gnat-llvm shall be interesting.  For everyone else for whom strict GPLv3 is unacceptable without the RLE's permission grants (and for whom AdaCore NDA/EULA licenses are cost prohibitive), this is merely an admirable historical reference for a possible future that has not yet come to fruition via a non-AdaCore Ada compiler.

as quoted from the webpage at the 1st URL above:

“License

“The GNAT LLVM tool is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later; see file COPYING3 for details.”

The COPYING3 file contains GPLv3 verbatim without any GMGPLv2- or RLE-esque permission grants.

The burning question will be:  will gnat-llvm ever be released in the future into FSF GNAT's source tree so that it has FSF's RLE permission grants?  Only AdaCore can answer that question.