Why Clang

[Brian W.]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 6, 2012 10:32 AM, "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Has the discussion on why change to clang been made available?
> >
> > I would like to know the reasoning.
> >
> > Or, is it simply a gratuitous  change?
> >
> > Tom Dean
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> i believe it at least partially has to do with license. FreeBSD does not
> "ship" (maybe correct word?) with any GPLv3 licensed software.
>
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA
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> It seems that GPLv3 and the desire to make clang the default in FreeBSD 10
are 2 of the reasons.

Brian