[cfe-dev] Query: Is clang an "Apple product"?

[Renato Golin]

On 2 October 2014 18:46, Robinson, Paul
<Paul_Robinson at playstation.sony.com> wrote:
> Apple delivers a version of clang (as part of Xcode?) and it's not unheard
> of for a vendor to include proprietary changes (I don't know whether Apple
> does this).  In that sense the clang-that-Apple-delivers could be reasonably
> considered an "Apple product."

In that sense, Sony, ARM and others also release LLVM based compilers.

Every time I heard the phrase "LLVM is an Apple product" was in a
pejorative way to diminish the community value, mainly due to the
license being more "corporate friendly" than GPLv3.

Ideals and licenses apart, LLVM is an Apple/Google product as much as
GCC is a RedHat product, Linux is a RedHat/Intel product, etc, i.e.
not at all.

cheers,
--renato