From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc6b98caa14b4851 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? References: <3698634.pnVmuSdKQp@linux1.krischik.com> <1160631304.552665.260340@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> From: Stephen Leake Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:H0WHvsx2gW4HzwmyU6DsOZbfOeQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 0353c453094b5759e00d407064 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6959 Date: 2006-10-14T03:41:37-04:00 List-Id: sg 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 -- -- Stephe