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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:16:31 -0400
From:      Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com>
To:        "'Wojciech Puchar'" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, "'Polytropon'" <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Why Clang
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> 
> i wouldn't be surprised that FreeBSD team would decide to go back to gcc
> soon.
> 
I would as one of the driving forces of the change was to replace GPL
licensed code in FreeBSD core with more permissive licensed code. This helps
to remove a massive legal encumberment for a lot of developers who no longer
have to worry how their BSD licensed code has to be treated if its compiled
thru a GPL compiler.




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