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"Pricing for M2 is forthcoming" is my official answer as someone not a part of the sales/business teams. I can only respond to technical/architectural questions sorry.
Magento 2 Community Edition is and will be free of charge: https://community.magento.com/t5/Just-Ask-Alan/License-for-Community-Version/m-p/20732#M42
Magento CE is certainly free and will remain so. With Magento 2 out now, you can contact sales for pricing information on the enterprise edition of Magento.
Probably it is time to top-up this topic.
"Probably it is time to top-up this topic" - sorry, not sure what this means. This area is for architectural feedback and guidance, not sales and pricing information. That is not my area of expertise.
I am not the original poster, so not sure why this question landed here, but interested in the answer