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But it sure sounds to me like the shoe fits. Enough that GCC is now existentially threatened by LLVM. ADDED: and I believe this is ~95% because of RMS's stewa
by hga 12y ago
But it sure sounds to me like the shoe fits. Enough that GCC is now existentially threatened by LLVM. ADDED: and I believe this is ~95% because of RMS's stewardship of the project (which already semi-died and was replaced by a fork), not the GPL, which is not a bad fit for a complete work like a compiler.
- scj 12y agoWould Apple's desire not to use the GPLv3, and subsequent funding of LLVM be related to RMS' actions?
- hga 12y agoRMS's stewardship of GCC most certainly includes re-licencing it under the GPLv3, it's all one of a part. And don't one or more of the BSDs have problems with the GLPv3 GCC? It's just not eeevil Apple (and that's part of why I swore off their products in 1987).
- detaro 12y agoFreeBSD switched to clang, OpenBSD afaik maintains forks of the last GPL2 versions. NetBSD and Dragonfly use GPLv3 gcc versions.