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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by antt on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:54PM (#18738636)
LLVM only exists because companies can't steal from gcc. The second gcc disappears LLVM will be forked a dozen times with no one seeing any source code again.
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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by Joky on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:38PM (#18829332)
Can you clarify what is this claim based on? I have been working on LLVM for years and this is absolutely not the dynamic in LLVM...
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