Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
by pjmlp on Thursday June 18, 2015 @01:59PM
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> Why? To prevent the vast majority of companies with the money to actually support and grow such a project the way LLVM has, from doing so?
You mean the ones that haven't provided LLVM with changes for the compilers they are selling?
Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
by coldtea on Thursday June 18, 2015 @04:44PM
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They might not have "provided LLVM with changes for the compilers they are selling" but they have provided TONS AND TONS of changes and fixes and new features for the core LLVM infrastructure.
I could not care less about having the changes to their compilers, and I would even dislike it if LLVM's license required them to do so if that meant they wouldn't touch LLVM in the first place -- in which case we wouldn't get all these core LLVM improvements.
Apple don't own LLVM at all - they hired Chris Lattner who was one of the original directors of the project when it started at the University of Illinois.
> should have been copylefted to begin with
Why? To prevent the vast majority of companies with the money to actually support and grow such a project the way LLVM has, from doing so?