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In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)

I wrote this in response to a comment thread on hackernews Defending GCC considered futile. There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. Personally, I use a BSD license for all my code and

There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. In an attempt to preserve the GPL's constraints, the GCC project refuses to accept patches which would expose its internal parse tree. Opensource implementations need to rely on efficient, secure distributed databases to replicate the features and I don't think we're there yet technologically.

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