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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:55:41 +0100
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 	Slipping in from the side... A non-support, run-time distribution,
> license in the $200 range would probably get a lot of takers (price
> range varying depending upon upgrade procedure -- a
> one-time/major-version fee could be higher than one that must be paid
> just to download a bug-patch release)

The GNAT compiler depends fairly intimately on the runtime, I think,
so it would be hard to produce something independent; the compiler
team could at any time change the interface, there's no independent
interface definition.