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If that is what he "expects" then he is clearly ignorant of the history of Apple and open source. The Apple Public Source License, Version 2.0 predates the GPLv
by anon1385 11y ago
If that is what he "expects" then he is clearly ignorant of the history of Apple and open source. The Apple Public Source License, Version 2.0 predates the GPLv3 by years and it includes a patent grant[1].
At one point Apple actually wanted to merge the entire of llvm into gcc, and were prepared to non-assert and patents that might be involved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8868994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8868994
[1] http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/ http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/
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- anon1385 11y agoGiven the success of LLVM since then, it doesn't make much sense to merge them now. The GCC maintainers would demand the removal of a lot of the key selling points of LLVM that have made it so popular among language designers, researchers and academics (the modular architecture, libraries that expose the AST etc).