<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:58 PM Chris Lattner <<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com">clattner@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">On Feb 12, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Philip Reames <<a href="mailto:listmail@philipreames.com" target="_blank">listmail@philipreames.com</a>> wrote:</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">If so, that would resolve the licensing concern. In
the future, let's make sure that gets mentioned in the review/commit
thread to avoid confusion.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>I can understand your concern, but for better or worse, we don’t ask llvm contributors to state the provenance of their code that they are posting. If you’re asking for some new rule to be put in place, please specify what the rule is and what the rationale for that rule is.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't want to speak for Philip, but I think the thing that made this a bit different was the explicit statement that the code came from some particular source (a different open source project in this case) and that triggered a concern about whether it was reasonable to contribute it. That doesn't seem unreasonable.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, when someone contributed a patch from the GCC fork of the sanitizer runtimes, we asked similar questions to what Philip has asked here because the statement that the patch came from somewhere else seemed directly in conflict with the contributor being able to correctly contribute it to LLVM.</div><div><br></div><div>That pattern might be a reasonable basis for new guidelines, or might not. I'm not really trying to have an opinion about that, just giving some other context.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chandler</div></div></div>