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Clang is free software.
by Touche 13y ago
Clang is free software.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- mattl 13y agothe BSD license is a free software license. It's not a copyleft license, or a GNU license, but its a free software license. The 2 and 3 clause BSD licenses are GPL-compatible free software licenses. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD Even the original 4-clause BSD license is a free software license, although the 'advertising' clause is GPL-incompatible. It's also not used much any more. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
- sdegutis 13y agoOh boy, here we go again.
- Codhisattva 13y agopasses the popcorn
- quenlinlom 13y agoGo back to Reddit. Hacker News isn't a place where you post memetic responses for peer acceptance.
- sbuk 13y agoSeriously?
- sdegutis 13y agoI interpreted what he and I both said as a statement of the pointlessness of this ongoing debate that everyone knows has no end. That seems like an on-topic statement to make on HN, especially if it deters others from jumping on that perpetual bandwagon.
- Touche 13y agoIt's not really a debate, the FSF, which was founded by Richard Stallman considers BSD (and a lot of other permissive licenses) to be Free Software. Only people who are even more of a zealot than Richard Stallman disagree.
- nzp 13y agoMy feeling is that they're not more zealous (to be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with being zealous when you're fighting for a good cause) but rather dilettantes who don't actually understand what FSF is about, or what the various licenses precisely mean. They just find the general aesthetics and rhetoric of FSF and RMS appealing and try to emulate cargo-cult style.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- msbarnett 13y agoThe FSF itself classifies all non-ad clause versions of the BSD license as free software licenses.
- mattl 13y agoEven the ad-clause license is free, it's just GPL incompatible.
- i80and 13y agoBSD is absolutely free software; it is not, however, copyleft. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
- jimktrains2 13y agoIt[0] doesn't seem like a free[1] license. [0]: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/LICENSE.TXT http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/LICENSE.TXT [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Edit: Yes, it is a free license, as other's have pointed out.
- msbarnett 13y agoThis is the NCSA/University of Illinois license. GNU classifies it as a free license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NCSA http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NCSA
- streptomycin 13y agoClang is also "a non-copylefted compiler that therefore becomes the base for nonfree compilers", which is the problem RMS has with it.