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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:43:54 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-07-17, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 4:19:30 AM UTC-6, Trish Cayetano wrote:
>> -	Ada requires expensive compilers for large systems 
>
> Semi-false -- This depends on what you're doing. FSF-GNAT is free,
> but comes with GPL; AdaCore-GNAT is also free but comes with a
> DIFFERENT GPL. Others like RR-Software or IBM's (they bought Rational)
> will have a different license.
>

In the case of FSF GNAT, the GPL applies to the compiler toolchain source
only; the RTL has the GMGPL exception (or whatever it's called these days).

Simon.

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