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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and licensing
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:05:38 +0200
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:32:03 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

[...]
> In short: if you decide to distribute your software in the source
> form, then you are not bound by any licenses. You can invent your own.
> 
> Note: distributing software in source form does *not* mean that it is
> not proprietary.

And how does this *technically* differ from distributing software as
executable "source" code with unresolved references (strings in the source)
to the RTL? As long as you don't distribute the RTL and the loader...

Hex code ~ Ada source
RTL + loader ~ Ada compiler

The bottom line is, it is worth to ask your lawyer first.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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