Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Oct 19, 2015 2:54 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by xtifr
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

> A company that specializes in creating what is essentially Tivo-ized hardware, and is thus particularly opposed to the GPLv3.
You might note, that iPhone was barely out when Apple started switching to LLVM.

> And even so, what does their feelings about the GPLv2 have to do with the fact that LLVM is heavily funded by a company that is firmly opposed to what the FSF is doing?
And what does it have to do with the dynamics of non-copyleft projects? Of course, many contributors to BSD and Apache 2 projects are allergic to GPLv3. That's the whole point!

> Which makes it an extremely atypical example?
I have provided several more examples.

> (And, of course, if you've mainly been working with LLVM, you probably haven't noticed how much gcc development has accelerated recently. So even if it were a good example, it wouldn't be a very good one.)
Wake me up when someone starts to use GCC JIT in anger.