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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Toolchain of choice
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Marcelo Cora=E7a de Freitas wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> Now, there would be no trouble using GNAT GPL 2010.
>
> Awesome, but wouldn't the license when compiling with GNAT GPL infect
> GNAT GCC?
>
> I mean, gnat gcc is MGPL while gnat gpl is pure GPL.

No, because the compiler (GNAT GCC) does not include any binary code
from the bootstrap compiler (GNAT GPL).  More generally, the "viral
clause" of the GPL only affects programs linked against libgnat; GCC
itself is not linked against libgnat, neither its own version or the
one of GNAT GPL.

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Ludovic Brenta.