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0 pointspeppermint_gum1y ago0 comments

Swift's LLVM fork is open-source, just not upstreamed. No Free Software license requires forks to upstream their changes.

https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project

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pjmlp1y ago· 1 in thread

Yet you're complaining that they are using the licence exactly as they feel like.

nequo1y ago

Parent was not complaining. Parent was asking what the rationale is behind maintaining a separate LLVM fork instead of upstreaming and reducing the maintenance burden on Apple engineers.

Zambyte1y ago

Referring to their fork as "private" seems quite misleading then.

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