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peppermint_gum
671 days ago
Swift's LLVM fork is open-source, just not upstreamed. No Free Software license requires forks to upstream their changes.
https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project
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Zambyte
671 days ago
Referring to their fork as "private" seems quite misleading then.
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pjmlp
671 days ago
Yet you're complaining that they are using the licence exactly as they feel like.
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nequo
671 days ago
Parent was not complaining. Parent was asking what the rationale is behind maintaining a separate LLVM fork instead of upstreaming and reducing the maintenance burden on Apple engineers.
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