[llvm-dev] RFC: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community
Joachim Durchholz via llvm-dev
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Fri Oct 30 06:20:02 PDT 2015
Am 29.10.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev:
> However for safety many might prefer not to look at the source
Those who do that have no interest in the LLVM license anyway.
IOW I do not think that this needs to be considered in licensing
choices. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
> so that
> any incidental similarities can't be accused of being due to copying
> code directly.
From what I see in the SVN, FreePascal is written in Pascal, so
accusations of verbatim copying from the LLVM sources wouldn't work.
That's still not 100% safe, but then I guess nothing is.
Regards,
Jo
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