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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2010-11-16 21:32:53 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2010-11-16 21:32:53 +0000 |
commit | ac139f19d96cfbc82a7db357b10ef25f1dccad0e (patch) | |
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parent | 76043670d5cb1337d171e9cd391a9b31876002a4 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html index 6a3d1b4..ef7ba39 100644 --- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html +++ b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html @@ -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> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |