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diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html index 3526421..6a3d1b4 100644 --- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html +++ b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html @@ -509,20 +509,24 @@ Changes</a></div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></div> <div class="doc_text"> -<p>For consistency and ease of management, the project requires the copyright - for all LLVM software to be held by a single copyright holder: the University - of Illinois (UIUC).</p> - -<p>Although UIUC may eventually reassign the copyright of the software to - another entity (e.g. a dedicated non-profit "LLVM Organization") the intent - for the project is to always have a single entity hold the copyrights to LLVM - at any given time.</p> - -<p>We believe that having a single copyright holder is in the best interests of - all developers and users as it greatly reduces the managerial burden for any - kind of administrative or technical decisions about LLVM. The goal of the - LLVM project is to always keep the code open and <a href="#license">licensed - under a very liberal license</a>.</p> + +<p>The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the + copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors + who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the + <a href="#license">LLVM License</a>.</p> + +<p>An implication of this is that the LLVM license is unlikely to ever change: + changing it would require tracking down all the contributors to LLVM and + getting them to agree that a license change is acceptable for their + contribution. Since there are no plans to change the license, this is not a + cause for concern.</p> + +<p>As a contributor to the project, this means that you (or your company) retain + ownership of the code you contribute, that it cannot be used in a way that + contradicts the license (which is a liberal BSD-style license), and that the + license for your contributions won't change without your approval in the + future.</p> + </div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |