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Unless you think of iOS and OS X as flavors of FreeBSD.
by CurtHagenlocher 11y ago
Unless you think of iOS and OS X as flavors of FreeBSD.
- davidgerard 11y agoMac OS X is separately accountable, and that's <i>entirely</i> because Apple hates GPLv3.
- tzs 11y agoThat's not correct. Apple needed technical things from a compiler that gcc could not feasibly do, and started moving things to LLVM before GPLv3 was released. Even if gcc had been relicensed under a permissive license such as BSD, Apple would have moved to LLVM and Clang. A couple examples. Core Image needs an optimizing JIT compiler that can take a chain of image filters and turn it into a single efficient filter for execution on the GPU or CPU (whichever will be faster on the particular system for the particular effects). XCode needs to parse C/C++/Objective-C code in the editor and in the debugger. What Apple needed for these things was a modular compiler system, designed to work as a compiler toolkit from which you can pick and choose the parts that you need for your particular needs. A compiler toolkit that is designed to be easy to interface with outside tools. Gcc was explicitly designed to not be that. It was only competition from LLVM/Clang that forced some liberalization onto gcc.
- Alphasite_ 11y agoIsn't Darwin forked from BSD proper, instead of FreeBSD etc?