&gt; However for my tools, I&#x27;m not bothered so long as a reasonable price or free MIT - in fact I&#x27;d rather pay for a commercial license than use a risky GPL license<p>Why do you consider GPL tools risky? I&#x27;m guessing you&#x27;re using GNU utils constantly? :)<p>&gt; I do feel sorry for Architects (my wife) though, they have to pay outrageous prices for design tools, literally thousands yet developers who earn far more than architects, bleat about trivial amounts such as $70 for ST.<p>Architects probably don&#x27;t have other options. Free development tools abound.