LLVM 9 Switches to a Less Free License

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Sep 20 18:51:42 PDT 2019


On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:36:06AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018675
> 
> https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
> https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.html
> 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/8.x/clang/LICENSE.TXT
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/9.x/clang/LICENSE.TXT


Is "Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions" creating per-project
balkanization?

Why was Apache 2.0 license insufficient?


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