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Requiring a license to use a compiler is straight out of RMS's (now unfortunately prophetic) article "The Right to Read" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-
by rmstwitterbot 11y ago
Requiring a license to use a compiler is straight out of RMS's (now unfortunately prophetic) article "The Right to Read" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Majority of Android phones out there are Qualcomm Snapdragon these days, and for the foreseeable future as they just inked an exclusive deal with Samsung. MediaTek SoC was already a proprietary nightmare of unreleased kernels and toolchains except for the leaked MT6589
- LukeShu 11y agoIn "The Right to Read", "license" refers to a license from the state, like a driver's license or gun license; not a license from the vendor (a copyright license). Vendors licensing proprietary compilers isn't something that TRR predicted--it was a common practice before GCC became dominant.