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> 386BSD (of which FreeBSD is based) is an independent lineage to GNU and was released under the BSD licence. Thus also independent to GPL. Is there a non-gnu
by e12e 5y ago
> 386BSD (of which FreeBSD is based) is an independent lineage to GNU and was released under the BSD licence. Thus also independent to GPL.
Is there a non-gnu c compiler? I could only find:
https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/2.0/usr/src/usr.bin/gcc https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/2.0/usr/src/usr.bin/gc...
People tend to forget that Linux was a small project that provided a gpl kernel for the GNU system - not the other way around (hence GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD etc).
- drewg123 5y agoThe desire for a non-gpl compiler is part of what drove the development of llvm. llvm is the default compiler on FreeBSD. Compilers are hard, and it took a while.
- laumars 5y agoI don’t think anyone in this thread would have forgotten that fact. The Op themselves mentioned Hurd (what was and still is intended to be the GNU kernel) so they clearly weren’t obvious to your point.