Hi, On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 16 June 2012 12:01, Arch hvv wrote: > > Have anybody inspected it? Is GPL violated in this case or not (e.g. > > do they provide all patches they've made to gcc)? > > If it's based on llvm-gcc then it only uses GCC as the front-end so > there may be no reason to patch GCC. In case they link-edit against GCC frontend (or backend, or just generally GPL protected) files and distribute the resulting binary they still must provide their own code linking against those under a GPL compatible license. I don't know of they do the former (or use llvm plugins), and if so, if they do the latter. The FSF might want to know, though. Ciao, Michael.
