From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,58ca75de832c49a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: about license price From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: <461d3c62$0$22256$426a34cc@news.free.fr> References: <461d3c62$0$22256$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: # Message-ID: <1176329843.7969.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:17:23 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2007 23:15:54 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: f99c3c9c.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=[c]R8PNY>`XcHPTNZh_e7QA9EHlD;3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFejVXN9lM_4B_`YRZ;@Vm]Nfi0T X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14917 Date: 2007-04-11T23:15:54+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:51 +0200, Lionel Draghi wrote: > Hello, > > A colleague told me about per-run-time fee for an Aonix compiler, on > Windows, targetting Windows. > > It sounds unusual to me, did someone heard about such a price policy? Hmm, since there are three editions targetting Windows hosted on windows, differing in support level and http://www.aonix.de/objectada_prod_matrix.html there might be different licensing models. Anyway, according to at least one license document, the Quantity of Executive Licenses and Package Program Licenses is unlimited for ObjectAda Native. This roughly means RTS in bound programs in usenet speak if my understanding is correct. A small section from the license that I received with the software some time ago reads (it's probably best to just ask Aonix; the actual license is of course between You and Aonix, so perhaps this isn't relevant anyway): "... (a) use the Executive Programs on one Target Computer in the possession of Licensee, or (b) include all or part of the Executive Programs into an Application Software Program that may be marketed to a third party (...), provided that the Executive Programs are not made visible to the end-user (...) and provided the Aonix copyright is included on the media." The text speaks of a flexible licensing mechanism, too, in case you have many network "nodes", i.e. a number of programmers each running a development computer with the tools installed. Licensing is then controlled by the number of "tokens" purchased. Again, this information may be outdated. Ask Aonix. There is also a public mailing list for ObjectAda. FWIW, when I run an 8.2 compiler and tools for Windows they require a connection to a license manager service.