Originally posted by rudregues
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Apple invented LLVM after GCC changed license to GPL3. The tivoization clause was critical.
Apple explicitly wanted to be able to lock-down all its technologies and products by technological measure.
They stayed with outdated GCC version which was still licensed under GPL2, then they started to rewrite a LLVM replacement.
Stallman sees free software as software from which proprietary companies may not rip off.
Apple wants to explicitly rip off of the software, hence insisting heavily on absent freedom protections.
There is simply no other explanations.
Those who try derail thread into different definitions of freedom are big jokes. There is freedom, which requires recursive protection of itself. And there is anarchy.
Up to the developer to decide which to pick. Up to user to decide which to support. This way or other, "opensource" would emerge.
I am with Stallman on this one.
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