[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Anders E. Andersen]

Den 22-08-2012 12:32, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho skrev:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Sven Barth
> <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> They plan to use LLVM (though this is not mentioned in that roadmap
>> article).
> I wonder if this means that the resulting compiler will be open
> source. I don't know anything about the licensing of LLVM, but they
> could require front-ends to be open source.
>
It wont. The license is very permissive. All it requires you to do is 
retain the copyright notice. Essentially you have to say 'I made this 
compiler using LLVM' somewhere.

http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/LICENSE.TXT

Anders