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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by pjmlp on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:57AM (#22481940)
Except with LLVM they wouldn't need to return their work to GCC, like NeXT was forced to do with their frontend.
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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by lmm on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:15AM (#22483453)
That's exactly my point. GCC's copyleft was only effective when there wasn't a viable permissive-licensed alternative.
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