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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Simon Wright wrote:
>> Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
> 
>>> I suppose you could also compile with GNAT, and send a library to
>>> your customers. Still no RTL involved.
>> I think that would be the same as distributing an executable.
> 
> Not quite.
> 
>> Not aware of anyone having discussed this, but as far as I can see a
>> .o file would be GPL'd just as much as the .exe's built from it.
> 
> No.  The GPL is on the run-time library.  And .o files are not linked,
> and thus not infected with the license of the run-time library.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jacob (IANAL)

Except of course that GNAT uses template based expansion for generics 
thus if you instantiate a generic that is itself GPL, I don't think you 
can fully get around this by just using .o's