Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by steveklabnik 437 days ago
> allowing an endrun of the the spirit of the GPL in gcc was never going to happen.

You're right:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

> If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC, I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these details.