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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by sigjuice on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:34PM (#14934090)
Here is another http://compcert.inria.fr

[08/2011] Release of version 1.9 of the Compcert C compiler. Novelties include a reference C interpreter and stronger semantic preservation results.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by exikyut on Saturday August 05, 2017 @04:58AM (#14934867)
Oh, another C compiler! I like collecting these - thanks! :)

Question for anyone handing out unofficial legal opinions:

This one is dual-licensed. There are a small kerfuffle of custom licenses that say "no commercial use", but everything is also variously covered by the GPL (v2 or later), LGPL v3, and BSD 3-clause.

Ref: https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert/blob/master/LICENSE

I'm curious if I could use this in a commercial setting if I perfectly comply with the various GPL and BSD licenses.

If I could, that could be a problem for this group, because the repo readme (at https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert) explicitly states "this is not free software."

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