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dded on Jan 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Clang and FSF's strategy

I'm not part of the Ada world, so I don't actually know, but I thought the important Ada compiler(s) were also proprietary.

jordigh on Jan 22, 2014 [–]

Ada is one of the poster children for early GPL success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT#History

They also sell GPL exceptions, which I think is a good thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7027926

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