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by Fabien_C 2119 days ago
> Various fairly essential libraries maintained by AdaCore are under GPL, so you could not use them for non-GPL software that is distributed.

That's not true, the AdaCore libraries are covered by the Runtime Library Exception of GPL and available on GitHub: https://github.com/adacore

And soon available in the package manager: alire.ada.dev

> The purpose of this Exception is to allow compilation of non-GPL (including proprietary) programs to use, in this way, the header files and runtime libraries covered by this Exception.