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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:47:21 -0600
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"Hubert" <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com> wrote in message 
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> - If you're a little guy wanting to write a professional piece of software 
> that you want to sell but it is not mission critical you are somewhat 
> hanging in the air.

You could of course use a different, commercial Ada compiler, rather than 
insisting on GNAT. At least Janus/Ada still costs $195 for the personal 
version and $500 for the professional version. See www.rrsoftware.com. 
(Disclaimer for new people here, I'm a co-founder and primary author of 
Janus/Ada, so I'm a bit biased. :-)

> It is my opinion that what is missing is some sort of intermediate license 
> for people who just want to write small scale applications and don't have 
> the security requirements of big projects adn thus don't need the support 
> that Adacore offers. Something like Turbo Pascal in the past or maybe even 
> Visual Studio in the Personal Edition or so.

Aonix used to have an ObjectAda version like that, but I heard that they got 
rid of it as they couldn't afford to support it. Janus/Ada is in that price 
range as well, but I have to admit the same is true -- there isn't enough 
business to justify working on it full-time. I have to do standardization 
stuff and ACATS stuff to make ends meet.

> Personally I wouldn't mind paying a few 100$ right now for a license that 
> would allow me to write closed source applications even if I get no 
> support or just some way to report bugs which may or may not be fixed 
> later.

See note about Janus/Ada above. ;-)

                   Randy Brukardt, R.R. Software, Inc.