bearophile wrote:
Leandro Lucarella:
Yes, I don't think "copying with 'cosmetic changes'" works, legally
speaking. Otherwise everybody would be doing it.
If 10% of changes is not legally enough, they LLVM dev can copy it and then
change the 15% of it or even 20%. There must exist a minimum amount of
differences between two blocks of code that allows them to be legally
considered different, otherwise GNU is worse than a software patent.
Nick Sabalausky:
Plus, do we even know that this is what's holding up LLVM exceptions on
Windows?<
The main LLVM dev(s) are hired by Apple, that I presume is not so worried of
windows too much. What they want is people to think LLVM is a bit
multi-platform, so they can contribute to the project for free.
I'll restart helping the LLVM project when it has gained some exceptions for
Windows :-)
Bye,
bearophile
Hear, hear. Sometimes the pendulum swings too far one way and then time
becomes due for it to swing back the other way.
Windows exception system (SEH - structured exception handling) does have
some nice things about it which are tedious if not difficult on other
platforms. It would be gracious of LLVM to acknowledge this.
Cheers
Justin Johansson
