From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   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. And   
   they have done so in the past: old versions of GCC C and C++ ran on   
   VMS VAX and VMS Alpha, old versions of Gnat Ada ran on VMS Alpha   
   and VMS Itanium.   
      
   The reason it is not happening is not license restrictions, but   
   lack of interest (willing to do work type of interest - not   
   it would be nice if somebody else did the work interest) in   
   the VMS community.   
      
   The specific discussion was about the LLVM compiler backend,   
   that VSI use for their compilers. If VSI made that available   
   (it is open source) then it would be easier for people to   
   write or port new compilers using LLVM as backend.   
      
   Arne   
      
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