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Subject: Re: Adacore and licensing (again),
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> 
> If you are using Adacore's free GNAT distribution instead of the FSF
> distribution then your resulting product will have to be open source.
> 
> Are you aware of this ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

Yepp. And I assume potential users will hesitate to spend much time to learn to use something closed source from a small business :-)