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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:17 -0700
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On 01/30/2015 10:34 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> I don't believe there are any language-defined units that GNAT doesn't
> implement as Ada source in the RTS? so it's the licensing terms on the
> RTS you actually build against that matters?

I somehow doubt that Ada.Containers.Hashed_Maps is part of the RTL. It's a
generic pkg that exists only as source. If that source lacks the exception, and
you "with" it, then your code must be GPL, regardless of the RTL the compiler
links in.

-- 
Jeff Carter
It's better to be root than to reboot.
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