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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Adacore and licensing (again), was: Re: State of the compiler market
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On 2017-03-01, reinkor <reinkor@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got a bit scared from this discussion since I am investing much time in
> developing an application in Ada. 
>
> Can Adacore's (gnat) public licence safeguard the language is available the
> coming 10-20 years? I.e. can I stay relaxed? :-)

If you are using Adacore's free GNAT distribution instead of the FSF
distribution then your resulting product will have to be open source.

Are you aware of this ?

Simon.

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