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Feb 11, 2016 at 19:36

Does LLVM keep its API unstable deliberately? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11081286 (it certainly helps with a weak copyleft licence)

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Nov 2, 2018 at 10:23

Ever thought that the AGPL was too weak and didn't encourage sharing source code? The SSPL is a viral copyleft license that requires you to share all the other software supporting your service! https://lwn.net/Articles/768670/ (I'm struggling to imagine anyone who would use this.)

Making the GPL more scary

For some years now, one has not had to look far to find articles proclaiming the demise of the [...]

Nov 16, 2015 at 19:14

NVidia is essentially open sourcing their Fortran compiler! https://www.llnl.gov/news/nnsa-national-labs-team-nvidia-develop-open-source-fortran-compiler-technology (LLVM may be weak copyleft but people contribute back)

NNSA, national labs team with Nvidia to develop open-source Fortran compiler technology

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its three national labs today announced they have reached an agreement with NVIDIA's PGI® software to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed for integration with the widely used LLVM compiler infrastructure.LLVM is a collection of reusable compiler and tool chain technologies with a modular design that facilitates support for a wide variety of programming languages and processor architectures.The Fortran front-end module created through this project will be derived from NVIDIA's PGI Fortran compiler

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