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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:
>=20
> https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild/search?q=3Dllvm&unscoped_q=3Dllvm
>=20
> This shall be interesting...

Well, for strict-GPLv3-licensed Ada-sourced apps & libraries, yes, gnat-llv=
m shall be interesting.  For everyone else for whom strict GPLv3 is unaccep=
table without the RLE's permission grants (and for whom AdaCore NDA/EULA li=
censes are cost prohibitive), this is merely an admirable historical refere=
nce for a possible future that has not yet come to fruition via a non-AdaCo=
re Ada compiler.

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

=E2=80=9CLicense

=E2=80=9CThe GNAT LLVM tool is licensed under the GNU General Public Licens=
e version 3 or later; see file COPYING3 for details.=E2=80=9D

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 futur=
e into FSF GNAT's source tree so that it has FSF's RLE permission grants?  =
Only AdaCore can answer that question.