From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:06:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9uu3l57.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <87mw4rxkzv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423512392 28224 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2015 20:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 20:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Liang Wang , slewsys@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 21:06:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKubD-0007vU-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:06:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKubC-0007gl-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKub8-0007eK-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKub8-0006Dk-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:06:22 -0500 Original-Received: from albireo.enyo.de ([46.237.207.196]:33114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKub0-00067X-RE; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.17.203.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by albireo.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) id 1YKuax-0005Wi-DB; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:06:11 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YKuay-0002TQ-SP; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:06:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:04:12 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 46.237.207.196 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182737 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman: > By replacing most of GCC with non-copylefted code, they would have > gone most of the way towards achieving the same result: to make GCC > cease to be a reason for all sorts of companies to work on a > compiler that always gives users freedom. I'm pretty sure more work is still done on GCC under NDA than on LLVM, and GCC's copyleft license may even play a role in that. What does user freedom matter if they never even get to use the code?