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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<+JjhQCmJYCyP@eisner.encompasserve.org>...

> That is in the end-user dimension.
> 
> The licensing for many commercial libraries included into other products
> allows modifications to those libraries without distributing those changes.
> Those libraries allow "more" in the software vendor dimension.

Just like the GNAT run-time library for example ...