Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0
by bosswipe on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:20PM
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Also I think GCC's loss of prominence due to LLVM hurts the pull of the whole GPL ecosystem.
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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0
by xyzzy_plugh on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:05PM
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Isn't this the other way around? LLVM makes it easy to embed parts of the project into IDEs, linters, etc.
My understanding was that Stallman continually fought to keep GCC difficult to avoid linking with if you wanted to use parts of it.
As I see it, once LLVM became competitive with GCC, adoption quickly accelerated due to liberal licensing.