Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Clang - what is the story? Message-ID: <4F1AAB66.5070100@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get away from gcc (which is tried and tested since the beginning of time) which is now apparently GPLv3. Can someone offer some clarity as to the importance of this? I'm guessing the that stepping away from GPL is generally a good thing, especially if there is something similar with similar license structure to BSD; I just can't understand the rush of it. Even under GPL anything built using gcc can be licensed as you like, so I doubt it could be that. I'm not skeptical, just curious- trying to get my head around some of the dev side of things :)
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