[LLVMdev] Using C++'11 language features in LLVM itself

Daniel Berlin dberlin at dberlin.org
Thu Jan 10 11:59:08 PST 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Justin Holewinski
<justin.holewinski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >>  I do not think you can legally make clang a system compiler on
>> >> Windows without licensing headers/libraries from Microsoft.
>> >> So inability to parse all of the SDK headers is a non issue to me,
>> >> can't use them anyway.
>> >
>> >
>> > Care to cite a source?
>>
>> Please don't (either of you) randomly speculate on the legality of
>> clang/LLVM.
>>
>> To be perfectly blunt (without trying to actually be offensive):
>> You aren't qualified, and it's not helpful or productive.
>
>
> It's not speculation, it's asking for references to information.  If there
> was interpretation, then I would agree.  But there is not.

The only place it could possibly lead is a discussion of legal issues
around llvm/clang, which are not on-topic for this list.
If ya'll want to have a private discussion about it, go ahead.
But don't do it here.



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