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That is true history, in my understanding, but it's not related. Chris Lattner offered to donate the copyright of LLVM to the FSF at one point: https://gcc.gnu
by steveklabnik 2y ago
That is true history, in my understanding, but it's not related.
Chris Lattner offered to donate the copyright of LLVM to the FSF at one point: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
He even wrote some patches: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01112.html https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01112.html
However, due to Stallman's... idiosyncratic email setup, he missed this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00594.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
> I am stunned to see that we had this offer.
> Now, based on hindsight, I wish we had accepted it.
Note this email is in 2015, ten years after the initial one.
- Philpax 2y agoIncredible. Thank you for sharing.
- steveklabnik 2y agoYou're welcome! It's a wild story. Sometimes, history happens by accident.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoWow that is wild. Imagine how different things could have been...
- amszmidt 2y agoThe only truth to the story is the missed email. There is nothing "unmodular" about GCC -- considering that it supports plenty of architectures, operating systems, and languages. The big difference, which people seem to miss in the context of the GNU project and GNU system, is that modularity is for free software projects. GCC is planty modular, and very easy to extend in any way shape or form .. if you abide by the license! If you want to be a parasite on a project licensed under the GNU GPL, you will have a rough ride .. that is after all the whole idea of copyleft.