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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.dns-netz.com!news.freedyn.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:28:00 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is gnoga free ? is ada compiler free software? Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:28:00 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <32b97917-3ceb-481c-a6cc-97e954b20ea7@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ctmwZfER9gLpcsT042bRhEoJbZma6Q19DJPExg/2C4KK8mWLee9awWK2HJk/AjDHqO+9Uw8n1M2eTJb!XyRJKVjJf174FKBr1JhVlMrMyS7gXdO7lsvUs3qiehTd/v/FqNTUyx5A7pfI1wBDN98YnJ88 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2623 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57732 Date: 2019-12-15T12:28:00-05:00 List-Id: On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:46:28 -0800 (PST), Azathoth Hastur 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). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/