Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.or> writes:

> M E Leypold wrote:
> > 
> > Let's face it: We have a restriction here: Go GPL or pay.
> 
> Hardly. You can use one of the fine GMGPL compilers available free 
> (3.4.X, 4.1), so need neither go GPL nor pay. You can also use a 
> low-cost compiler from another vendor (RR SW, AONIX), which does not 
> involve going GPL and does not require nearly the investment of GNAT Pro.

Please follow my other posts :-). Regarding what I'd call "the
environment", like bindings to a portable GUI toolkit or the OS.

I know I've been posting a lot these days, and it's difficult to read
all that. But I also do not want to rehash everything for the
umpteenth time.

As far as a general group of answers here go: Answers like "you can
use another language" are hardly adequate to problem. But I'll try a
simpler approach now:

 - I love Ada.
 - I'd like to see a commercially viable (GMGPL or LGPL) environment.
 - Anybody else?

A number of people here seem to interpret requests for informations
here as cries for help (sort of "my business is dying, get me a free
whatever"). This is all muddled with often not very well thought out
philosophy what free means or should mean. Perhaps I _am_ a victim of
a language barrier here. Never mind. But as far as I'm concerned my
requests only want to

  (a) Clarify the state of some licenses and their supposed interaction
      with other licenses.

  (b) Find out wether there is still a commercially viable avenue in
      developing portable consumer software with Gnat (FSF) and/or 


What "portable", "consumer" and "viable" mean in the case I'm trying
to make, is basically my definition (and my right to define here). So
if one hasn't tried to do exactly that in 2006, most advice is bound
to fall short of the real issues here. I.e availability of a compiler,
alone, is the least problem one faces (on the other side it already
spells desaster if the choice of compiler limits the number of
available libraries / bindings).

For me, it's not an emergency. I've a number of other options that
have nothing to do with Ada.


Regards -- Markus