Re: Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

sg <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT> writes:

> OK, but if I want to buy licence for 2 seats with no support at all I can't

What does this mean?

GNAT is GMGPL or GPL; there is no license to buy. The only thing you
can buy is support.

If you don't need support, just use a publicly released version of
GNAT, either from https://libre2.adacore.com/, or from an FSF GCC
distribution.

Hmm. The latest public GNAT from https://libre2.adacore.com/ is under
the GPL license. Perhaps you mean you want GMGPL instead of GPL; is
that the issue?

In that case, you can use the FSF GCC distribution of GNAT; it is
GMGPL. However, it is pretty broken, compared to the
https://libre2.adacore.com/ distribution. But that just means you
actually do need support, and we are back to option 1 :).

TANSTAAFL

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