LLVM is free software, and it is a confusion to equate copyleft and free software, though I still maintain that free and open source are very distinct concepts which refer to different categories of licenses. That contrast is better stated by RMS in the article on the subject above which I linked above.
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Primarily its this first line here:
>LLVM is free software. You appear to be making the common mistake of confusing the permissive vs. copyleft distinction with the open source vs. free software distinction.
LLVM is NOT free software because it is released under the Apache license, which is an open source license but not a free software license. This is opposed to the linux kernel and GCC which are free software because their source is available under the GPL license. Further it is not really a confusion to equate permissive licensing with open source as distinguished from copyleft and free software. In this context, free is equivalent in meaning to copyleft, as distinguished from the more permissive open source licenses.
> Apache License, Version 2.0 - This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL.
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> Further it is not really a confusion to equate permissive licensing with open source as distinguished from copyleft and free software.
You are in disagreement with the FSF on this issue. "permissive" licenses also follow the Four Essential Freedoms, none of which require viral licensing.
There were plenty of those, including commercial ones.
It's pretty hard to find but ~25 years ago I was using Xi Graphics Accelerated-X which had 3D acceleration long before Xfree86.
Update: but yes I imagine it had some code from original MIT release.
For completely independent one you can have a look at WeirdX/WiredX, which was written in Java and even supported antialiasing and transparency for core protocol (something that Xfree86 people claimed to be impossible to implement).
Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and within 24 hours changed the policy to allow posting the story.
And here we are 5 years later and people still bring it up.
A major difference is that Canonical projects have copyright assignment policies, while Red Hat projects don't - this probably explains a lot of the difference in adoption dynamics.
The thousands of peace-keeping troops in Armenia/Azerbaijan that looked the other way were not German, but Russian. By the way, both Russia and Armenia are members of the CSTO military alliance[1], while Azerbaijan is not.
Yes, I know that the Russians looked the other way.
However, Baerbock has absolutely monstrous statements and the German gas-guzzling contingent are the obvious culprits for the EU partership agreements with Azerbaijan and for the incorrect statements treating this whole thing as somehow restoring Azerbaijani territorial integrity and the numerous statements by the EC falsely claiming that Armenia had attacked Azerbaijani (i.e. these 'we call on both sides...' in the aftermath of Azerbaijani attacks). Furthermore, it is German influence on the EC that made the implementation of the ICJ decision subject to negotiation, and it is likely German influence on the EC that forced the agreement whereby mine maps were exchanged for the release of PoWs. These mine maps naturally enabled further Azeri attacks. It is also very apparent that there was government influence on media organizations to not report the starvation in the NKAO beginning after the Azeri blocking of the Lachin corridor-- for example in Sweden state television reported nothing, and reported of the ethnic cleansing itself only that 'Armenian separatists have agreed to leave Azerbaijan'. This shows co-ordination between Swedish government, Swedish state television (SVT) and Turkey or Azerbaijan, indicating a secret deal either for the sake the Swedish NATO entry or on the EU level. Certain phrases 'lightning offensive' which sound decidedly Turkish are also repeated in many newspaper articles, indicating a larger deal rather than something specific to Sweden.
The CSTO is absolutely irrelevant, as everybody who matters in any way knows completely. France would not be selling weapons to Armenia if they believed that their CSTO membership were relevant.
There were excellent opportunities to intervene even as the Azeri troops were rolling down the Agdam road to Stepanakert, and it's very unlikely that the Germans were unaware. SAR satellite imagery of the region is so readily available that unclassified images can be obtained on a commercial basis and I'm not even sure it was cloudy.
... and in typical fashion of Stalin, first he substantially created this policy, and then he completely reversed it in 1938, so that Russian became mandatory to teach in all schools and the local nationals in leadership positions were purged.
> The fact that, much later on, many elements of the laptops history and provenance were confirmed as legitimate (with some open questions) is important
There are two separate "the story"s. One is a story about Hunter Biden's laptop. One is a story about political interference and/or bias at Twitter.
At least some of the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was true. That doesn't tell us anything about whether the story about political interference and/or bias at Twitter was true.
The linked article argues that (1) there wasn't in fact political interference at Twitter, (2) although Twitter employees (like employees of many many many tech companies) lean left, there was no sign that anything in the company's treatment of the H.B. laptop story was politically motivated, and (3) the fact that Twitter nerfed links to the NY Post's story about H.B.'s laptop for one day (a) more likely increased than decreased interest in that story and (b) had no impact to speak of on the presidential election anyway.
Of course it might be wrong about any or all of those things, but whether the NY Post's story about the laptop was actually true or not has nothing to do with any of them.
(The assertion being made upthread here is that Twitter's handling of the story was a deliberate attempt to "suppress" Donald Trump and that it handed the election to Joe Biden. It's all about the second story, not the first one.)
> At least some of the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was true. That doesn't tell us anything about whether the story about political interference and/or bias at Twitter was true.
None of the BSDs provide the requisite long term ABI compatibility; or rather, the only long-term ABI compatibility offered by FreeBSD is its (incomplete) implementation of the stable Linux ABI.
Major releases are cut from the main development trunk every 24 month ... No compatibility for API and ABI is guaranteed from one to the next major release, though an effort is made to make the upgrade process and source code changes as untroubled as possible.
> Nearly all open source software is free software; the two terms describe almost the same category of software.
I see no disagreement, how is GP "completely wrong"?
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