From: craigberry@nospam.mac.com

On 3/26/25 7:02 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/26/2025 1:09 AM, David Meyer wrote:
>> Is there anything in the VSI licensing that would prevent a community of
>> VMS and Rust (for example) fans from developing a VMS port of a Rust
>> compiler and releasing the compiler as open source?
>
> No.
>
> VMS users can write or port all the compilers they want to.

One of the following things would have to happen for that to be true:

- VSI produces and makes available an LLVM developer kit
- VSI pushes back upstream everything people would need to develop
compilers with LLVM
- People create their own port of LLVM for VMS

As of today, the only way to get LLVM on VMS is to get a compiler
produced by VSI, and those compilers are not going to be
redistributable. I think VSI has expressed an intention to push their
changes back upstream but that hasn't happened yet and they have a
mountain of work to do to get there.

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