| ▲ | AceJohnny2 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I'd love to learn what accident you're referring to, Steve! I vaguely recall the FSF (or maybe only Stallman) arguing against the modular nature of LLVM because a monolothic structure (like GCC's) makes it harder for anti-GPL actors (Apple!) to undermine it. Was this related? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | steveklabnik 5 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That is true history, in my understanding, but it's not related. Chris Lattner offered to donate the copyright of LLVM to the FSF at one point: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html He even wrote some patches: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01112.html However, due to Stallman's... idiosyncratic email setup, he missed this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00... > I am stunned to see that we had this offer. > Now, based on hindsight, I wish we had accepted it. Note this email is in 2015, ten years after the initial one. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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