alt Hacker NewsI think that's less because of the license and more because people found patching gcc to be a big pain.
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CalChris • yesterday at 10:47 PM
Correct, it’s not the license.
I think that's less because of the license and more because people found patching gcc to be a big pain.
Correct, it’s not the license.
To be fair, GCC's design was motivated by the same thing as the license. They intentionally didn't modularize GCC so that it couldn't be used by non-free code.
> Anything that makes it easier to use GCC back ends without GCC front ends--or simply brings GCC a big step closer to a form that would make such usage easy--would endanger our leverage for causing new front ends to be free.
https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html