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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:15:29 +0100
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>> My current work will be distributed under an Open Source license,
>> but I would like to have the freedom to advice costumers to select
>> Ada even for closed source products.
>
> Do you mean you'd like to advise your customers to select the free
> GMGPL GNAT (as opposed to Ada) for closed source products?

Technically, no, but in some practical cases, yes.

The specific choice of the Ada compiler doesn't matter that much to
me.  What matters is if it works for the target platforms at an
acceptable cost for the specific project.  For my only previous
shrink-wrap project, I am pretty sure we used Aonix for compiling the
delivered version.  The project budget wasn't large enough to pay for
GNAT/pro, and we only had to deliver a Microsoft version of the
application.

Greetings,

Jacob
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