<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Michael J. Bergin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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working on a Java implementation of
portions of LLVM and have a question about licensing. The project
won't contain any LLVM source code although I can foresee using JNI
stubs that link against LLVM libraries. It does however in many cases
follow LLVM APIs. From my understanding of the
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">University
of Illinois/NCSA license this means:</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
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1. I need to include the copyright notice in the documentation</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
2. I'm can release the project under any license I want provided its
compatible with inclusion of the LLVM copyright</span></span></font><br>
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Please let me know if I'm understanding
this correctly, I should provide more info and/or there are any
considerations I've missed. If anyone is interested in the project
please don't hesitate to contact me. I would be especially grateful
to anyone with experience releasing open source software that wouldn't
mind receiving an
email here and there. Thanks.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Yep, that's it! The uiuc license is intentionally designed to be very liberal, nearly "you can do whatever you want with the code, just don't sue us, and ack your use in your docs". Some more description is here:</div><div><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license</a></div><div><br></div><div>But, I am not a lawyer and can't give legal advise,</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></body></html>