[llvm-dev] RFC: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 20 October 2015 at 17:15, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com> wrote:
> that's not a problem.
> bpf backend produces code that runs in the kernel.
> That's no different than x86 backend produces code that runs in the kernel.
> bpf isa is free.
> There is iovisor/bcc project that uses both clang rewriter and
> llvm bpf backend statically linked, but it's using apache2 license,
> so no problem either.

Hi Alexei,

Excellent, thanks for the info!

cheers,
--renato