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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:16:30 +0000
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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:

>> The whole situation is not so easily understood and the explanation
>> in the Libre Adacore package don't make it much clearer either. I was
>> thinking if it is the Libraries only, one could omit them and write a
>> new set of libraries, but this essentially rules that out.
>
> it is possible I am wrong about the binding code, but I am under the
> impression they hold that anything produced by their public compiler
> is GPL unless you have GNAT PRO.

They would, wouldn't they.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies#.22He_would.2C_wouldn.27t_he.3F.22