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by someengineer
4167 days ago
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Intel is indeed moving to LLVM for this reason and being totally transparent about it. From https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/05/27/why-we-cho... ---
LLVM is distributed under the Illinois Open Source License, which is nearly identical to the BSD license and is very open for use both by open-source and proprietary projects. Some other projects, such as Open64, are licensed under more restrictive licenses like the GPL, which were not compatible with our own licensing model.
--- So, what RMS feared is exactly what's happening with Clang, and he's right in terms of pushing the GPL to prevent this sort of thing. Now, whether or not this is actually bad is another question. Personally, I think this sort of bleeding between proprietary and open source ultimately improves the ecosystem as a whole. |
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