Re: [Etoile-discuss] LLVM

2008-03-01 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:02:51 -0800 Andrew Pinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:54 AM, David Chisnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I composed a long reply to Nicola's email, but this makes my point far better than I did. A few things: - LLVM is Free Software. No it

Re: [Etoile-discuss] LLVM

2008-03-01 Thread Helge Hess
On 29.02.2008, at 18:33, Hubert Chathi wrote: How is it not Free software? Its not Free Software according to the FSF definition, which everyone refers to when you are taking part in a mailinglist which contains GNU or GNA in its name. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

Re: [Etoile-discuss] LLVM

2008-03-01 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Mar 2008, at 15:27, Helge Hess wrote: On 29.02.2008, at 18:33, Hubert Chathi wrote: How is it not Free software? Its not Free Software according to the FSF definition, which everyone refers to when you are taking part in a mailinglist which contains GNU or GNA in its name.

Re: [Etoile-discuss] LLVM

2008-02-29 Thread Nicolas Roard
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andrew Pinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - LLVM is already producing faster code than GCC. No it does not. It also supports less targets than GCC does which is the most important thing for free software really. If it's so good, people will port it. Even