Re: Needed - Ada 2012 Compiler.

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2019-05-28 01:25, Optikos wrote:
> On 2019-05-27 at 08:38, Björn Lundlin wrote:
>> On 2019-05-27 12:30, alby....@gmail.com wrote: 
>>> - AdaCore's GNAT 2018 community edition
>>> (cant be used in commercial apps.) 
>>
>> Of course it can be used in commercial apps.
>> But it will be under GPL. 
>> But you can still sell it, and sell support to it. 
> 
> But “[o]f course it can be used [by anyone else] in [their] commercial apps [too]. 

Not really.
I need to provide my source to my _customers_ - which is far from
'anyone else'

If my customers does not know/like/want to program software they buy,
then there is no trouble

If they do want to fibble with the system, they likely need support.
Sell it to them

If they resell your software - well they can.

But by not targeting that kind of customers,
or providing business crucial types of software that
the customer use - but does not fiddle with - (which is the case in my
business) I see less of a problem.

So no, I still think it is wrong to state that the CE _cannot_ be used
in commercial apps.


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Björn