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LLVM to replace GCC being another prime example.
by X86BSD 10y ago
LLVM to replace GCC being another prime example.
- Nomentatus 10y agoAnd Blink, at the heart of Chromium Browser, which replicates webkit, only under a more permissive license. And we could go on from there... Tally up all the replacements, and the cost is staggering. Not to mention that developers and programmers are especially critical resources. GPL is possibly the greatest tragedy to befall technology since James Watt failed to understand the physics of scale, and vigorously prevented high-pressure steam engines from existing until his patent ran out.
- insertnickname 10y agoBlink is a fork of Webkit, and it seems to have the same licenses as Webkit (LGPL 2.1 + 3-clause BSD).
- Nomentatus 10y agoNope, Blink isn't a fork of webkit, it's a total rewrite and has a BSD license that webkit doesn't. Which was the point of doing the rewrite.