Heads up, g++ in Xcode 5 points to Clang

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-10-28 19:33, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 28/10/13 18:33, Joakim wrote:
>> Do you have any evidence that they've exerted "proprietary control"
>> over llvm,
>> say by adding closed modules to their compiler?
>
> I understand how you could interpret it that way, but my email didn't
> actually suggest that Apple had any plans to close-source the compiler.
>
> My impression -- and I'm happy to be proven wrong -- is that Apple
> disliked the idea of a GPLv3-licensed compiler because its patent grants
> might have created problems for other parts of their software portfolio,
> which indeed _are_ proprietary.

Apple uses libclang in Xcode, that is, the dynamic library. They can't 
do that with GCC from a license perspective?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg