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GCC "allowed" LLVM to exits by not having the same license as LLVM in the first place? That's some circular logic.

No, irrespective of GCC’s license, Stallman intentionally hampered GCC’s output to be difficult to use with other free software, in hopes that it would also be difficult to use with proprietary software. See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26397634

...and the conversations was about license so stop shifting the goalposts.

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