Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

[David Kastrup]

Helmut Eller <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10 2015, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely nothing the LLVM team could do more other than
>> assigning all of their copyrights to the FSF in order to hand over
>> licensing and development control.
>
> They could use multiple licenses like some other projects do,

That's nonsense.  They are using a GPL compatible license already.
There is no point in making a "dual-license" release when one license
already implies all the rights of the other anyway.

> or they could say that they prefer to help NVIDIA than to help the
> FSF.  But this is just speculation as neither me nor you are in charge
> of LLVM.

It is not speculation but nonsense.  LLVM is already released under GPL
compatible terms.  They _are_ already giving us permission for all we
could ask of them.  You can make a GPL-only release of LLVM today if you
want to.  This "they could say that they prefer to help NVIDIA than to
help the FSF" is a load of bollocks.

What else do you want?  Tell them to dissolve their own community and
commit ritual suicide?  Those interested in LLVM will still be able to
take the code and continue developing it.

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David Kastrup