Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > More precisely, Apple intends LLVM and Clang to make GCC cease to be a
  > > signal success and a reason for all sorts of companies to work on a
  > > compiler that always gives users freedom.  That would be a victory for
  > > Apple and a defeat for freedom.

  > At least once, Apple proposed to integrate LLVM as part of GCC.

That appears to have been in 2005, before GPL v3 was published.
GPL v3 is what Apple hates, because of its patent protection.

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.  Because GCC would have come much
closer to failing to always give users freedom.

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