[cfe-dev] FUD in clang vs GCC comparision ?

John Criswell criswell at illinois.edu
Thu Aug 2 08:55:34 PDT 2012


On 8/2/12 10:45 AM, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> On 08/ 2/12 09:47 PM, Буров Дмитрий wrote:
>> "GCC is licensed under the GPL license. clang uses a BSD license, which
>> allows it to be used by projects that do not themselves want to be GPL."
>> http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html
> They are referring to the inclusion of clang inside another project and
> not the result of compilation.
> ------------
> There's no FUD - please contact a legal professional if you have further
> questions or doubts and leave this list for development relates
> questions or issues.

Just an FYI that the aforementioned Clang web page does tell users to 
email cfe-dev if a comparison between Clang and GCC seems unfair.  The 
original question was therefore on-topic.

-- John T.

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