[M3devel] A question about the M3 licensing...

[Tony Hosking]

Yes, I have thought that this would be a great idea for some time  
now.  Similarly for .NET.  The only obstacle of course is time...  :-)

On 20 Aug 2009, at 14:57, Louis Chrétien wrote:

> I remember reading on this list (or was it the website...) that the  
> way the
> licensing of Modula-3 is written, it would make it incompatible/ 
> impossible
> to merge this project with the GCC front-end from the GCC  
> foundation, the
> way that GNU Ada was incorporated into that project.
>
> Because M3 uses a modified GCC code generator, it would have a made  
> sense to
> go that way.
>
> But another, intriguing possibility exists: the LLVM project
> (http://www.llvm.org). It looks like a very high-performance,  
> optimizing,
> multiple target infrastructure, that would make Modula-3 highly  
> portable.
>
> I'm sure i'm not the first to think of this, but what are the  
> obstacle to
> porting M3 to that environment (apart from the obvious effort in  
> programming
> required... ;-)))
>
> --
> Louis Chrétien
> lchretien at mac.com
>
>

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