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		vvhn on Aug 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/L... What's FreeBSD's adoption of llvm/clang got to do with Apple's non-adoption of GPLv3 ? (Linux is a GPLv3 holdout as well btw). The *BSDs prefer a non-GPL licensed alternative if they can get one.

egil on Aug 14, 2013 [–]

Linux is licensed as GPL v2 (only), so a switch to gpl v3 would require concent from all contributors and be practically impossible.

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