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anonymous via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 18 12:29:22 PST 2016


On 18.02.2016 21:24, David Nadlinger wrote:
> But please don't make up argument trying to rationalize whatever
> personal decision somebody else made. You could literally copy LLVM
> source code into your application and sell it as a closed-source product
> without risking any copyright problems (if you comply with the very
> modest attribution clause of the license).

LLVM's license isn't the supposed problem. DMD's license is. You cannot 
copy DMD backend code to LLVM. By not contributing to other compilers, 
Walter stays in the clear in that regard. At least, that's how I 
understand the argument.


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