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non open source, based on clang, but faster?

in the perfect world I would like that everyone who uses clang would freely benefit from this improvement. should some big and good corporations just buy out those guys?



The entire point of using a BSD/MIT-style license is that it gives "freedom" to a different set of people than the GPL does. In this case, why is it not perfect for someone to invest money building a commercial product on top of clang? Isn't it just fine that they want to make a lot of money?


That is the GPL world, the BSD world is all almost making this kind of work possible.

So don't worship MIT/BSD and complain later about it when companies prevent you to get the code.




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