Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

> In the case of linux there has been a lot of focus on that lack of an ABI towards drivers,

there's no lack of ABI, it's mostly defined by the usual GNU toolchain and some kernel side decisions and it doesn't really change, certainly much much less than the API.

> or kernel modules in linux lingo

no, not all kernel modules are drivers.

> The lack of a stable ABI for drivers typically means that

you don't know what you're talking about again. the ABI is quite stable, what is not stable is the API and no amount of recompilation will help if the source code itself is not patched to accomodate the changed API.

> Regarding the linux drivers, most people care about the ABI, not the internal linux API, so I thought that was more relevant for the discussion.

most people who care about the API actually understand the difference.

> People often mix the concept of API and ABI,

you don't say ;).

> but as I already have said, they are not the same although they are clearly related concepts.
> Not sure how this confusion came about, but I guess I had one post where I was unclear.

this will be a fun day, keep it coming! ;)