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Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial
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anon wrote:
> The license is for the GNAT compiler and tool suite.  You can freely download 
> and modify any to all GNAT programs but you can not sell GNAT or its tools 
> suite unless you obtain the rights from Adacore.

Says who? As far as I know, the entire toolchain distributed
by AdaCore is released under the GPL, and you may sell it to
your heart's content without requiring any permission from
anyone. When you do sell it, you must comply with the GPL,
of course.

> Now, if you use GNAT, you can build a commercial program, but the GPL 2 and 
> 3 will force you to use a GPL or GPL-like license for your commerical project.

Only if the output actually contains significant amounts of
copied GPLed code. For example, doesn't GNAT have a no-runtime
option?