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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:52:37 +0100
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:

> Doesn't matter. Even if it is strictly internal development, a big
> corporation won't want to accept any restrictions on what they
> develop as their own IP. They don't know how they might want to use
> it tomorrow. If it has license restrictions on their IP, this might
> preclude them from selling it to someone on their own terms at a
> later date. Like I said, as a businessman, I would not accept that
> for anything I pay to develop.

But the only restriction is that if you compile with the GPL compiler
and release *that* binary you are affected; if you recompile with any
other GNAT you are not.