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Subject: Re: recent changes in compiler pricing
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de>
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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:28 +0100, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> There are different GNAT versions around. How can I check whether the 
> version that I'm using allows me to write non-GPL software?

Any of the GNATs around allows you to _write_ non-GPL software.
But not every GNAT around allows you to _distribute_ binaries without
source that include portions of the GNAT RTS.

Permission to write and distribute _sources_ is not affected
by the licensing status of any of the publicly available GNATs
whatever its "exception status" is, WRT distributed _binaries_.

For GNAT GPL, this is all stated on its home pages.



 -- Georg