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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
Date: 24 Sep 2005 05:53:18 -0500
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In article <43350a13$1@news.broadpark.no>, "Frank" <myworstenemy@somewhere.com> writes:

> What if a big company choses to keep all their development on the 3.15p 
> version --- because they have 25 developers
> this becomes cheap. However they need the quality from the AdaCore service- 
> so they buy one licence of "5-seats"-
> on which they compile all other code regulary (especially before testing) 
> and from which they base their support requests. Does the licensing prevent 
> this?

Certainly AdaCore would be dumb if their license terms did not consider this.
Too dumb to maintain an Ada compiler.