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

[Justin Holewinski]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

No, I was asking for a reference, not legal advice.  If it turns into a
legal debate, *then* it's off topic.  If I have to start a private
conversation for every piece of information I want, what is the point of
community conversations like these?


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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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