> > "If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of

> > "If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these details." > I am stunned to see that we had this offer. I'm also stunned to see this offer, in a not-so-delighted way. "If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC" – of course that was a big if, but imagine it happened. Would all the languages that flourished around LLVM (e.g. HN darling Rust) happen in the alternative copylefted LLVM universe? Btw here's the actual proposal from Chris Lattner: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html