<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jukka,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We discussed this with the LLVM Foundation board. While we think there is high utility to providing such a NOTICES file, we don’t know of a way to keep it up to date, and don’t want to be providing incorrect information for such an important topic.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That said, the llvm/LICENSE.TXT checked into the code has this information about how to identify third party licenses in the code base. I hope this is enough to help with your analysis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">==============================================================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Software from third parties included in the LLVM Project:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">==============================================================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">The LLVM Project contains third party software which is under different license</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">terms. All such code will be identified clearly using at least one of two</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">mechanisms:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">1) It will be in a separate directory tree with its own `LICENSE.txt` or</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> `LICENSE` file at the top containing the specific license and restrictions</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> which apply to that software, or</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2) It will contain specific license and restriction terms at the top of every</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> file.</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 4, 2020, at 10:51 PM, Jukka Jylänki via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello all,<br class=""><br class="">I was asked to bring attention to this LLVM ticket to the mailing list:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46201" class="">https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46201</a> - Missing LLVM NOTICE file<br class="">is making redistributing LLVM difficult.<br class=""><br class="">It was recently noted by our legal review in release management that<br class="">LLVM third-party licenses are scattered over different files, which<br class="">complicates faithful license-preserving redistribution of LLVM to our<br class="">users. Having a grouped license declaration of would make building<br class="">redistributables easier.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Jukka<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">LLVM Developers mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br class="">https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>