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"Not completely. Proprietary modules and forks of both exist, so in the broadest sense they are not (in the sense of, if I'm ever handed a copy of something calling itself LLVM, I do not know that it is libre software)."

Proprietary forks and modules of GCC exist too. Shocking, I know.




Well, if they do they're never distributed, so a better term would be private, not proprietary.

I suppose in the corporate sense, these two things are indistinguishable, so I should specify that I meant non-free, in the free-as-in-freedom sense, but I don't think I was ambiguous.

I've been having this conversation in good faith, though my opinion is unpopular, and I'd invite you to do the same.




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