why do most non-gnu distros, like chimera and major BSD variants, use elftoolchain instead of the LLVM tools?
Often the LLVM tools (llvm-ar, llvm-strip, etc) are already installed by default, so why include 2 sets of binary utilities?
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Licensing. They don't believe in copyleft
But they're already using clang/llvm, so they already need to comply with the license. Some like FreeBSD already have the llvm tools installed alongside elftoolchain