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Subject: Re: Why GPL for GNAT hurt(s) the Application Space
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On 09.10.14 00:09, David Botton wrote:
> No one wants to waste their time and until I felt I had a viable tool suite that didn't have the GPL virus in it, Ada was out for public projects for me.

If there is a desire to not have that source based reciprocity
(however asymmetrical it may actually be) shouldn't this create
an opportunity for a compiler company to offer a judiciously priced
Ada 2005 compiler?
  That is, whenever the "sales department" can reliably determine that

- a $$$$ support contract won't make sense for this customer,

- support will, by agreement, be based on goodwill, or none,
   at the discretion of the company

- use will, by agreement and in fact not become freeloading
   (as has been the case, apparently, at AdaCore)

- no misdemeanor needs to be expected, like overzealously
   comparing compilers' features in public

they would offer a command line tool for less than VS Pro, say.