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by kcexn 238 days ago
GCC has come a long way in terms of features and complexity since the 90's/00's when Stallman made these decisions. Today, building a compiler from scratch would be a huge undertaking, and would be prohibitively expensive for most organizations regardless of licensing.

If the requirement was still just to implement a "simple" C89 compliant compiler, and I was worried about software freedom. The GPL is probably still a good bet.