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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2010-11-16 21:32:53 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2010-11-16 21:32:53 +0000
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libc++ and compiler_rt are now dual licensed under UIUC and MIT license.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@119387 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -533,20 +533,16 @@ Changes</a></div>
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="license">License</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>We intend to keep LLVM perpetually open source and to use a liberal open
- source license. The current license is the
+ source license. All of the code in LLVM is available under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">University of
Illinois/NCSA Open Source License</a>, which boils down to this:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can freely distribute LLVM.</li>
-
<li>You must retain the copyright notice if you redistribute LLVM.</li>
-
- <li>Binaries derived from LLVM must reproduce the copyright notice (e.g. in
- an included readme file).</li>
-
+ <li>Binaries derived from LLVM must reproduce the copyright notice (e.g. in an
+ included readme file).</li>
<li>You can't use our names to promote your LLVM derived products.</li>
-
<li>There's no warranty on LLVM at all.</li>
</ul>
@@ -556,7 +552,22 @@ Changes</a></div>
LLVM's license is not a "copyleft" license like the GPL). We suggest that you
read the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">License</a>
if further clarification is needed.</p>
-
+
+<p>In addition to the UIUC license, the runtime library components of LLVM
+ (<b>compiler_rt and libc++</b>) are also licensed under the <a
+ href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT license</a>,
+ which does not contain the binary redistribution clause. As a user of these
+ runtime libraries, it means that you can choose to use the code under either
+ license (and thus don't need the binary redistribution clause), and as a
+ contributor to the code that you agree that any contributions to these
+ libraries be licensed under both licenses. We feel that this is important
+ for runtime libraries, because they are implicitly linked into applications
+ and therefore should not subject those applications to the binary
+ redistribution clause. This also means that it is ok to move code from (e.g.)
+ libc++ to the LLVM core without concern, but that code cannot be moved from
+ the LLVM core to libc++ without the copyright owner's permission.
+</p>
+
<p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute llvm-gcc, <b>which is GPL.</b>
This means that anything "linked" into llvm-gcc must itself be compatible
with the GPL, and must be releasable under the terms of the GPL. This
@@ -570,7 +581,7 @@ Changes</a></div>
<p>We have no plans to change the license of LLVM. If you have questions or
comments about the license, please contact the
- <a href="mailto:llvm-oversight@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Oversight Group</a>.</p>
+ <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Developer's Mailing List</a>.</p>
</div>
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