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Hello bearophile,

> Leandro Lucarella:
> 
>> but about 2), one of the main goals of LLVM was
>> to have a less restrictive license than GPL, so copying GPL code is
>> not
>> an option for them.
> Can't you copy it by something like 90%, enough to be able to call it
> different code (that's what I was referring with 'cosmetic changes')?
> 

IIRC the only way to escape a GNU license is to do a cleanroom. If the file 
started under GNU, it will forever be GNU.

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