[ytch]

Apple can actually do this theoretically since LLVM uses "University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License" [1].

This license is much like BSD License, which doesn't require to release modification.

For Example, Sony uses LLVM as part of the PS4 Toolchain[2], but they also doesn't release their code.

[1] http://llvm.org/releases/2.8/LICENSE.TXT [2] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....

[Narishma]

I was under the impression that Sony pushed upstream a lot of the improvements they made to clang/llvm, but they had to wait until the PS4 was announced to do so.

[ytch]

Well, I doesn't 100% sure that Sony didn't release PS4 LLVM code yet, maybe my memory is wrong?

[slashdotaccount]

Poll: how many people think this is a bad thing?