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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:44:04 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:

>> Also, as far as I can see (and I am willing to be corrected here if
>> I am wrong) it means that you can't even write a library in Ada under
>> something other than the GPL if you are going to use the Community
>> version. As soon as you compile the library source with the Community
>> version, it falls under the GPL and hence any software using your
>> library also falls under the GPL.
>
> Exactly right.

Well, no: see "Can I use GPL-covered editors such as GNU Emacs to
develop nonfree programs? Can I use GPL-covered tools such as GCC to
compile them?" at
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF

It's the runtime that does it.