FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback'

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Stallman has called LLVM a terrible setback in a new mailing list exchange over GCC vs. Clang. LLVM continues to be widely used and grow in popularity for different uses, but it's under a BSD-style license rather than the GPL. RMS wrote, 'For GCC to be replaced by another technically superior compiler that defended freedom equally well would cause me some personal regret, but I would rejoice for the community's advance. The existence of LLVM is a terrible setback for our community precisely because it is not copylefted and can be used as the basis for nonfree compilers — so that all contribution to LLVM directly helps proprietary software as much as it helps us.'"

Re:GPL/BSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Because true freedom means having only one person define what true freedom means.

Re:More than one type of "freedom"

[rujasu]

Dude, RMS has his issues, but comparing him to Richard Marx? Harsh.