Mono Relicensed MIT

Posted Apr 8, 2016 0:09 UTC (Fri) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: Mono Relicensed MIT by Cyberax
Parent article: Mono Relicensed MIT

>> They have patches which aren't upstream.
> They are pretty trivial.

You mean as trivial as their ARM64 compiler backend that they kept closed and only released when the merging of an other, independently-developed, competing backend into upstream LLVM was imminent?

Mono Relicensed MIT

Posted Apr 8, 2016 1:39 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, like this. They promised to do it once it is production quality and ready for release. And did just that:

> A number of you have asked about the 64-bit CPU in the iPhone 5s, and what that means for LLVM. The iPhone 5s is based on the ARMv8 / Aarch64 instruction set, but the clang compiler in Xcode 5 is based on a custom LLVM Aarch64 backend, not the one currently on llvm.org. Apple is committed to contributing its Aarch64 backend to the community (merging it "the right way" with the existing backend), but it was a significant amount of work, and will take at least several months to work out all the details. I'll keep you posted.