RAILGUN LABS, LLC offers three products with MISRA C conformance: Charisma, Judo, and Unicorn. These products are priced extremely competitively because our MISRA C validation tool of choice, Cppcheck Premium, has itself been priced competitively.

In the current market, MISRA C conformance tools are always priced in the thousands (even tens of thousands). While Cppcheck Premium has been outstanding, it was the last holdout to offer competitive pricing.

Cppcheck Premium has undergone licensing changes, and the new quoted price is considerably higher than the previous price paid. This new price either approaches or exceeds the price of our own products! As such, without a clear alternative tool, a tough decision must be made: either raise the prices of MISRA C products or drop MISRA C entirely.

Temporary Price Increase

Temporarily, the prices for MISRA C products will be raised to reflect the external costs associated with MISRA C conformance tooling.

This short-term decision was made because (1) Railgun products are already MISRA C compliant and (2) they are stable (there are no changes to the codebases required). Choosing to maintain MISRA C support for now allows us to gather your feedback before making a final decision.

Sunsetting the Solopreneur License

The Solopreneur License for all MISRA C products is being retired in favor of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3).

Railgun has been dual-licensing its MISRA C products under the GPL and a closed-source commercial license for some time now. The Solopreneur License is an artifact of a time before the products were GPL.

Feedback Requested

If you are currently using or auditing Charisma, Judo, or Unicorn and the absence of MISRA C conformance would preclude their use in your project, please reach out and share that feedback. If Railgun does drop MISRA C, then expect prices to drop to their original levels (or lower pricing structure).

Even without MISRA C support, Charisma, Judo, and Unicorn are mature, fully customizable, and highly embeddable. They offer significant value even without conforming to MISRA C, but please share your feedback as it will impact their future direction.