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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:40:31 -0400
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"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Jeffrey Creem wrote :
>> Hopefully someone at Greenhills is paying attention to this discussion.
>> This confusing license perhaps "exposing" a company to GPL terms when
>> the headers clearly are not GPL will make a great writeup that will
>> pretty much make it impossible to even use GNATPro within my company.
>
> I don't understand. Did your company not receive a license statement
> from AdaCore along with GNAT Pro? 

I didn't. But I'm not selling or distributing anything, so I don't
care specifically.

On the other hand, I probably could get one, since I have a
contractual relationship with them.

> No, I don't think AdaCore want to sue anyone. I would rather think they
> are die-hard, purist Free Software believers, like RMS (i.e. "free up
> your software or pay"). 

That wasn't what they said when they first released GNAT with GMGPL
runtime libraries.

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-- Stephe