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by beagle3 5378 days ago
> Traditionally I don't think the license has stopped Apple from contributing a lot back to the OSS community (just look at WebKit).

GPL3 makes a world of difference (KHTML/WebKit is GPL2 if I'm not mistaken); e.g., it may interfere with Apple's executable signing policy

> Have you heard of any such projects being launched with GCC?

Not as many as LLVM, but ... GCCXML, GCC Go frontend, GCC D frontend. Things still happen in GCC world.