"On the other hand, Stallman's goals (having the best compiler technology be foverer a copylefted one) is perhaps achievable by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang relicensed to GPLv3 with continuous merging of Apple's work, and make that fork far superior to Apple's version."
I assume this person means the changes would be licensed as GPLv3 because you cannot just go and relicense someone else's code without the copyright holder's permission.
Calling it "Apple's version" might be a tad bit offensive to the other companies working on LLVM / clang.
"On the other hand, Stallman's goals (having the best compiler technology be foverer a copylefted one) is perhaps achievable by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang relicensed to GPLv3 with continuous merging of Apple's work, and make that fork far superior to Apple's version."
I assume this person means the changes would be licensed as GPLv3 because you cannot just go and relicense someone else's code without the copyright holder's permission.
Calling it "Apple's version" might be a tad bit offensive to the other companies working on LLVM / clang.