Re: is gnoga free ? is ada compiler free software?

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:46:28 -0800 (PST), Azathoth Hastur
<azathothhaster@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 1:30:33 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
>> Gnoga is free.
>> As for compiler, it depends on which you're talking about.
>> 
>> If you want a reasonably prices commercial compiler, RRSoftware's Janus/Ada is $300:
>> http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/blog/combo.html
>
>priced?
>
>NO NO I want FREE SOFTWARE!
>FREE
>no cost or price!

	Note: "commercial" -- one that has no restrictions on the use of
programs compiled with it, and which has available support. Janus/Ada is,
for that, cheap -- commercial GNAT from AdaCore starts in the mid $$$$
range for a license (which probably needs to be renewed each year).

	Compilers with no monetary cost? You are probably stuck with the FSF
port of GNAT (which runs a few months behind AdaCore's release) or the
"free" version of AdaCore GNAT. Note that the latter license terms are such
that anything LINKED with the AdaCore runtime library is infected with GPL
license (if you give the program you write to anyone else, you have to
provide them with your source code too; FSF, as I recall, does not invoke
that license on their runtime library).


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