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On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 5:44:40 AM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 23:53, Jerry wrote:
> > Apple is beginning its third nightmare transition to a new processor fa=
mily.. What does this mean for Ada on macOS?
> >=20
> > Can we hope for a native compiler anytime soon? We will have Rosetta 2 =
until we don't. (Original Rosetta lasted for two OS generations and then it=
 was taken away.) I could tell you the story of needing to run a small Powe=
rPC program to set up a slightly old Apple WiFi device a couple years ago. =
Buy Parallels. Call Apple and send $30 to get Snow Leopard Server--that's 1=
0.6. Virtualize Snow Leopard Server on Parallels to run the WiFi set-up pro=
gram in Rosetta.)
> >=20
> > Jerry
> >=20
>=20
> GNAT-LLVM with possibly a custom system-aarch.ads and other runtime parts=
.

Without paying a hefty proprietary-licensing fee to AdaCore, isn't GNAT-LLV=
M distributed only under pure GPLv3 without the Runtime Library Exception (=
RLE)?  Wouldn't that mean that GNAT-LLVM on MacOS (and iOS) can be utilized=
 by software distributed under GPL-compatible licenses, lest that software =
violate terms of GPLv3?