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Michael Bode wrote:
> "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>>But the application programmer *is* the user of the compiler.
>>
>>The question was not about the compiler, it was about the run-time
>>library.
> 
> 
> I thought the problem arises if one instantiates generics. This is
> usage of an Ada compiler. I also thought the run-time could be linked
> dynamically and thus be distributed separate. For now I'm fine with
> gnat 3.15p, but maybe that also doesn't work for me licence-wise as...
> 


This is not correct. If the runtime is GPL. Dynamically linking to it 
really does not help under the strictest interpretations of the GPL. You 
are thinking that some portion of the runtime is LGPL.


It is not. It is GPL with a linking/generics exception (in the case of 
old GNAT <=3.15 releases and FSF derived GCC releases) which is actually 
slightly more permissive than the LGPL.

The runtime is "GPL" in the case of the Libre/adacore GPL releases.