[llvm-dev] Relicensing: Revised Developer Policy

Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Sep 12 10:47:57 PDT 2017


David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>> That said, Chris and others have made it clear that the relicensing
>> process will proceed as planned. LLVM will most likely be forked.
>
> That would be unfortunate, but I doubt that a fork under the old license would gain much traction as the employers of the vast majority of active contributors are very keen on the patent protection clauses that are so problematic for OpenBSD.

I will not agree to relicense any code if that would cut OpenBSD out.

Cheers,
Rafael


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