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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Whatever happened to GNAT GPL's JVM and .NET targets?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:39:21 -0600
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J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> Le 22/11/2017 à 18:34, Lucretia a écrit :
>> On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:18:49 UTC, Lucretia  wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:12:26 UTC, Shark8  wrote:
>>>> It's been a while since we've seen a new target for JVM or .NET
>>>>  - Java Virtual Machine on Windows: 2013 - 
>>>> http://mirrors.cdn.adacore.com/art/564b3e5ac8e196b040fbd8c8
>>>>  - .NET on Windows: 2014 - 
>>>> http://mirrors.cdn.adacore.com/art/564b3f9dc8e196b040fbfda7
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice to be able to target GNAT to these platforms once 
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> AdaCore slapped GPLv3 on the JVM backend. The .NET backend was always 
>>> GPLv3.#
>>
>> I mentioned this someone on the Github game off discord, this is what he 
>> said:
>>
>> "That sucks :( And it's not healthy for the language as well"
>>
>> We all know that, except AdaCore.
>>
> Huh? I just checked on libre.adacore.com, both (cross) compilers for JVM
> and .NET are there - as well as Lego Mindstorm

How did you do that? "libre.adacore.com" instantly redirects to 
www.adacore.com, and there is essentially nothing to download there.

                                        Randy.