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by wahern 1857 days ago
No compromise, AFAIU. They felt they had no choice but to upgrade to a more modern compiler, and they preferred clang+APL2 over gcc+GPLv3. Apache 2.0 still violates their licensing policy. Technically, GPLv2 also violated their licensing policy. They historically used GPL'd software like gcc when there were no viable alternatives and doing without wasn't acceptable either.

EDIT: See https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=159514079929237&w=2