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by tyingq 2108 days ago
Surely the usefulness of what the compiler outputs is at least related to whether it's commercial or not.

If I forked GCC and made a version where the produced binaries would only run on the machine where the compiler ran, and removing that was a subscription...I'd call it a commercial product.

(Ignoring the GPL issues)

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> only run on the machine where the compiler ran

clang is always a cross-compiler, including the versions shipped by Apple.