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		Hexstream on April 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Competition Among Open Source Compilers: The BSD I... "GCC intentionally ties the front and back ends into the rest of the code quite closely, to avoid "semi-proprietary" forks." You've gotta be kidding me...

Nelson69 on April 1, 2009 [–]

That's a very suspicious statement.

GCC uses the GPL to avoid "semi-proprietary forks."

akkartik on April 2, 2009 | [–]

Check out this mail and the thread around it: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01823.html They've argued this many times on the gcc list.

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