It's really is becoming increasingly harder to support Apple
platforms with a third party compiler, because of the evolution to
more and more lockdowns (moving away from open source/free software
to more something like Microsoft's "shared source" concept, which is
nice as long as you only want to look at things, but which breaks
down horribly very soon if you want to do more).
While I agree with you about the larger-scale issues of NDA madness,
it has nothing to do with compiler technology. LLVM is fully open
source, released under the NCSA license <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php
>.
There are obviously many points of view on how software should be
distributed; I don't feel that software licenses should be used (as by
the FSF) as political crowbars to attempt to force 3rd parties into
adopting (or not adopting) particular mechanisms. While I think Apple
is overusing the iPhone NDA in an embarrassingly self-destructive way,
I do defend their right to choose how to make their software available.
—Jens _______________________________________________
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