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On 04/18/2018 11:03 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
> AIUI, making the compiler open-source (maybe even GPL) was a condition in the 
> original government contract that NYU won and which produced the first GNAT.

As I recall, the contract required that

* The compiler implement the entire Ada-95 core language
* The source of the compiler be freely available
* The compiler be freely available
* The compiler be usable to produce proprietary S/W

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