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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Adacore and licensing (again), was: Re: State of the
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Robert Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:

>>> Yepp. And I assume potential users will 
>> Good. Given that I have had to explain this to more than one person
>> over the years who simply hadn't realised this, I just wanted to be
>> sure you knew.
>> 
>> Simon.
> 
> Don't scare people too much.  Use whatever version of GNAT (or other
> compiler) you want during development.  When you get ready to ship a
> commercial product, the version you use to compile THAT is important,
> consult your lawyer type stuff.  If all you distribute to your customers
> is source code, none of that applies.
> 

The issue is there are numerous free compilers for other languages, yet
only one for Ada. So that isn't really an argument for most people here.