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"walter has not contributed a single patch to GCC i can find in the past 10 years (It may be longer, i stopped looking) :)" It's worse than that. Because LLVM
by bionsuba 11y ago
"walter has not contributed a single patch to GCC i can find in the past 10 years (It may be longer, i stopped looking) :)"
It's worse than that. Because LLVM and GCC are copy-lefted and his compiler has a proprietary backend, he forces himself not to even look at their code in order to make the lawyers happy.
- comex 11y ago(LLVM is under a BSD-style license and thus not copylefted, although it does require attribution.)
- WalterBright 11y agoHaha, I once got sued by a company claiming I stole code from them, and their lawyer got sent packing when it turned out they had stolen the code from me. (I had a registered copyright on it.) One thing I absolutely adore about Github is the audit trail about who contributed what and when. It's a solid gold defense, and a way to limit the damage if someone does check in bad code.