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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada 95
Date: 1997/10/21
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John Lindsay <lindsay_j@rmc.ca> writes re GNAT:

>                  This is one of the Gnu compilers, utilities, 
> etc., is free to use, and the source code is available.  
> But its covered by the Free Software Foundation's famous 
> 'copy left' (as opposed to copyright), and one can't use it 
> for profit without further arrangements;

If you compile your own Ada source using GNAT, you can do what you
please with it;

>                                          further if you use 
> the source code to create something else, that something 
> else becomes covered by the same copy left.

The compiler itself is subject to the GNU copyright statement.
The runtime library has special provisions which allow you to
instantiate generics from it and bind to it without imposing any
restrictions on the resulting executable.