[License-review] Evolving the License Review process for OSI

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon May 27 14:10:47 UTC 2019


On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 9:52 AM Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi>
wrote:

Your assumption that vast hordes of developers aren't strongly
> pro-copyleft is also mistaken.
>

I don't know about hordes, but certainly the BSD and clang communities
(which overlap) tend to be so.  One, certainly not the only, reason for
developing clang was to provide a production-quality C/C++ compiler that
was not GPL, yet highly compatible with gcc.


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