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Readline's has an important history, resulting in CLISP being licensed under the GPL: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-unde

• wruza 9y ago
  >”The direct result of this is that we now have an Objective C front end. They had wanted to distribute the Objective C parser as a separate proprietary package to link with the GCC back end, but since I didn't agree this was allowed, they made it free.” The direct result of this is half-a-trillion dollar company that wrote its own toolchain from scratch and released it to the public for free, giving birth to thousands of modern language projects, while GNU Objective-C is still a dead crap with no demand.