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> thanks LLVM license. To be fair, gcc requires contributors to assign copyright to the FSF or dedicate their work into the public domain. Neither of which is
by est31 6y ago
> thanks LLVM license.
To be fair, gcc requires contributors to assign copyright to the FSF or dedicate their work into the public domain. Neither of which is required by the GPL's copyleft so if Apple used gcc, they could still make changes that can't be upstreamed due to gcc's policy.
- pjmlp 6y agoCheck how Steve Jobs was an happy fellow to contribute back Objective-C frontend to FSF, back in the early day of NeXT.