GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing
GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing
Posted Feb 19, 2016 2:22 UTC (Fri) by rahvin (guest, #16953)In reply to: GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing by Cyberax
Parent article: Winning the copyleft fight
>Nope, the move to LLVM+clang was very clearly caused by GPLv3.
I won't agree with that. The market was ripe for another OSS compiler, far too many specialty compilers and compiler companies had gone under due to GCC. Though I might agree it was related I won't assign causality as I believe something like it would have developed either way due to the changing market eliminating options.
You simply couldn't write a closed source compiler anymore unless you could spend hundreds of millions on development to stay ahead of GCC. LLVM+clang levels the playing field for a lot of companies and takes the heavy lifting off. Hell in 5 years I wouldn't be surprised to see the Intel compiler or even the Visual studio compiler end up as forked LLVM, that is if they aren't already.
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