Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Nov 1, 2015 1:33 UTC (Sun) by dvdeug (guest, #10998)
In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by Cyberax
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Pretty much nobody uses Ada outside of a tight circle of defense contractors. True. And pretty much nobody uses Rust, period. If Rust isn't relevant, then it's not relevant.

Claiming that the license lets LLVM be used in spaces that GCC can't is a special-purpose claim; it's basically <i>why</i> LLVM and GCC can't be used as the end-all and be-all of how GPL is doing against less-restrictive licenses.