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Re: LLVM or GCC or Intel?
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Re: LLVM or GCC or Intel?


  • Subject: Re: LLVM or GCC or Intel?
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:53:51 -0700


On 31 Jul '08, at 2:25 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:

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.

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 >Re: LLVM or GCC or Intel? (From: Bill Northcott <email@hidden>)
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