On 11.01.2014 12:58, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 21:00:24 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Because Walter wouldn't be able to work on his current job any longer
if he looks into other compiler vendors source code.
IP laws are always a complicated issue.
Unless you have an actual explanation as to why this would be the case,
I'd simply regard this as FUD. I see how the viral nature of the GCC
license might be a problem for that, but as far as LLVM is concerned,
Walter would even be able to just rebrand Clang as DMC and ship it as a
closed-source package. LLVM also doesn't require any copyright
assignments, which might be an impediment for contributing any fixes
back to GCC.
David
As far as I remember he already had a few court cases caused by such
kind of issues.
He is the best person to explain such issues, I would say.
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Paulo
