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People or certainly some companies might be put off from contributing due to licensing. That might be. However, it shouldn't be understated that a great number
by aric 12y ago
People or certainly some companies might be put off from contributing due to licensing. That might be. However, it shouldn't be understated that a great number of contributors to GCC do so because of its license.
- chris_j 12y agoI don't think that userbinator is complaining about gcc's licence so much as about the unnecessary complexity of the codebase. The accusation that I've heard levelled at gcc in the past is that the code is structured such a way as to make it hard to use parts of it with other proprietary modules. The consequence of this is a codebase that is less modular and more complex than necessary.