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Subject: Re: and visual library once again
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Steve Whalen wrote:
> GNAT would be a "perfect" example only if AdaCore were still respecting
> the wishes of the people who put up the money (the DOD), who insisted
> on the GMGPL for the runtime libraries of the GNAT compiler.

They received a contract for a project and they fulfilled it.
Whatever wishes may be involved are irrelevant. And actually,
the original contract was deliberately for less than the whole
of the Ada standard precisely to avoid damaging the business of
other Ada vendors. If anything, by releasing a GPL-only runtime,
AdaCore is honoring that original intent.