[LLVMdev] Question about the license of LLVM

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:34:04AM +0100, derk jochems wrote:
> Will there be away so that these restrictions can't be layer upon the "End User" of that IDE?
> If LLVM would have a license stating: "Using LLVM, software restrictions to the End Users of software that creates software are not allowed in any way"

No. The license is BSD-like and not the GPL. If you want to create
closed source code based on LLVM, you can. Consider Apple's Xcode for
example. On the other hand, if you do create a closed source product
based on LLVM and you don't push changes back upstream, you will have
quite some maintainance overhead. LLVM is quite a fast moving target
after all.

Joerg