Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware

["G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 06.01.15 15:45, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 06/01/2015 14:26, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de a écrit :
>>> I would be happy to pay something in the field of 300$ for that system
>>> as it is now, without tech support, if it allowed me to write small
>>> closed suorce software.
>>
>> Agreed. The existence of such a compiler (by AdaCore or someone else)
>> would be good for the Ada community.
>
> Unfortunately, I fear that nobody from Atego is reading this
> newsgroup... (Yes, they (Alsys at that time) used to have a "personal"
> version of the compiler).
>

Aonix used to sell a Windows compiler for $$$, up to
v7.6 or v8.2, I believe. Atego has been acquired (7/2014)
into the PTC staffing optimization enterprise(*),
together with IBM Ada (then Atego Ada (then Rational Ada)).
So, PTC has two Ada compilers, one rather complete
(Ada 2005), the other using the AdaMagic frontend, which
used to be sold by SofCheck (now AdaCore).

Maybe making available a no-support compiler would
be an addition that is tiny enough to not affect an enterprise's
accounting efforts. (Compare it to keeping track of gift acquisition
and other business expenses of the sales department.)
But, OTOH, bigger enterprises need some incentive to make
smaller products. What would that be?

So, in the end, a reasonably simple Ada compiler for the
non-enterprise Ada market would best be produced and maintained
by ____. Fill in the blanks ;-)

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(*) http://atego.com/pressreleases/pressitem/ptc-to-acquire-atego
http://de.ptc.com/about/news-room/press-releases/2014/07/ptc-completes-acquisition-of-atego