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| author | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-20 12:57:14 +0000 |
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| committer | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-20 12:57:14 +0000 |
| commit | cbb70ce070d220642b038ea101d9c0f9fbf860d6 (patch) | |
| tree | d2b61ce94e654cb01a254d2195259db5f9cc3f3c /docs/DeveloperPolicy.html | |
| parent | 4ace901e87dac5bbbac78ed325e75462e48e386e (diff) | |
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Vendor import of llvm trunk r126079:
http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@126079
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diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html index 4735200..ef99ebc 100644 --- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html +++ b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ <li><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li> <li><a href="#license">License</a></li> <li><a href="#patents">Patents</a></li> - <li><a href="#devagree">Developer Agreements</a></li> </ol></li> </ol> <div class="doc_author">Written by the LLVM Oversight Team</div> @@ -196,7 +195,11 @@ <ol> <li><b>Evan Cheng</b>: Code generator and all targets.</li> - <li><b>Doug Gregor</b>: Clang Basic, Lex, Parse, and Sema Libraries.</li> + <li><b>Greg Clayton</b>: LLDB.</li> + + <li><b>Doug Gregor</b>: Clang Frontend Libraries.</li> + + <li><b>Howard Hinnant</b>: libc++.</li> <li><b>Anton Korobeynikov</b>: Exception handling, debug information, and Windows codegen.</li> @@ -506,40 +509,40 @@ 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> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> <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> @@ -549,7 +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 @@ -563,7 +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> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> @@ -584,21 +602,6 @@ Changes</a></div> details.</p> </div> -<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="devagree">Developer Agreements</a></div> -<div class="doc_text"> -<p>With regards to the LLVM copyright and licensing, developers agree to assign - their copyrights to UIUC for any contribution made so that the entire - software base can be managed by a single copyright holder. This implies that - any contributions can be licensed under the license that the project - uses.</p> - -<p>When contributing code, you also affirm that you are legally entitled to - grant this copyright, personally or on behalf of your employer. If the code - belongs to some other entity, please raise this issue with the oversight - group before the code is committed.</p> -</div> - <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <hr> <address> @@ -609,7 +612,7 @@ Changes</a></div> Written by the <a href="mailto:llvm-oversight@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Oversight Group</a><br> <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br> - Last modified: $Date: 2010-09-02 02:09:17 +0200 (Thu, 02 Sep 2010) $ + Last modified: $Date: 2010-11-16 22:32:53 +0100 (Tue, 16 Nov 2010) $ </address> </body> </html> |
