llvm dev - Oct 2015 - RFC: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community

On 19 October 2015 at 21:03, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
wrote:
> If you are still concerned about this issue, my question is simply: what
specific GPL2 compiler (or other user) that might want to use LLVM would be
affected?
I'm not. I was just pointing to the fact. :)

I remember Apple and others have stuck with GPLv2 GCC, but I don't
think there was any cross between them to warrant worry. I'm not sure
anyone would do that because of the existing problems, so it's
probably a non-issue.

cheers,
--renato

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at
linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On 19 October 2015 at 21:03, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
wrote:
>> If you are still concerned about this issue, my question is simply:
what specific GPL2 compiler (or other user) that might want to use LLVM would be
affected?
> 
> I'm not. I was just pointing to the fact. :)
> 
> I remember Apple and others have stuck with GPLv2 GCC, but I don't
> think there was any cross between them to warrant worry. I'm not sure
> anyone would do that because of the existing problems, so it's
> probably a non-issue.
Ah, we have one specific project that this will be a problem for: llvm-gcc,
which is still stuck on the GPL2 version of GCC.  However, it is also stuck on a
very old version of LLVM, and has no community.  It is therefore effectively
dead, and we should just excise it from the project IMO.

-Chris

On 19 Oct 2015 11:03 p.m., "Chris Lattner" <clattner at
apple.com> wrote:
> Ah, we have one specific project that this will be a problem for:
llvm-gcc, which is still stuck on the GPL2 version of GCC.  However, it is
also stuck on a very old version of LLVM, and has no community.  It is
therefore effectively dead, and we should just excise it from the project
IMO.

+1, independent of the license change.

Cheers,
Renato
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Chris Lattner via llvm-dev wrote on Tue, 20 Oct 2015:
> Ah, we have one specific project that this will be a problem for:  
> llvm-gcc, which is still stuck on the GPL2 version of GCC.
Afaik all GCC releases use(d) the "or (at your option) any later  
version." wording, so technically it shouldn't be a problem.


Jonas