<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=""><div class="">Hi Zachary,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We ask that all new contributions be contributed under the terms of both the new and the old license. This allows people to use it under the old license during the transition, but allows us to eventually get to the new one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our intention is to eventually drop the old license. However, if we drop it at revision X, people could still use the codebase as of revision X-1 under the old license if they want to.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no CLA required for this sort of thing. A CLA is required when you want to change the license of a contribution post-facto, which is something that many contributors are not willing to agree to.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 28, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-foundation <<a href="mailto:llvm-foundation@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-foundation@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">What does this mean in terms of new contributors? In order to be licensed under both old and new license, there should be some kind of CLA involved I’m assuming. But I don’t see anything. What do i tell my legal department?</div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:52 AM Robinson, Paul <<a href="mailto:paul.robinson@sony.com" class="">paul.robinson@sony.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-8670797456898968454WordSection1"><p style="margin-left:.5in" class="">The process is still in progress. The online documentation is accurate.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, except for the January 2019 date. It would be good to update that to a more sensible target.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">--paulr<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p>
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<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-foundation] Status of re-license?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On 7/24/20 8:35 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-foundation wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Hi, I'd like to make a contribution. As it is currently written, I do not understand the requirements for being able to contribute a patch.
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html*relicensing__;Iw!!JmoZiZGBv3RvKRSx!tTB6fptPB67Jr1XkdBJ1hFHiXdGmACITgQwclIU7qFlG5RHS61Gh0seceHmtxqQ5FQ$" target="_blank" class="">This page</a> seems to suggest that all contributions
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">> <span style="" class="">In the interim, <strong class=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">all contributions to the project will be made under the terms of both the new license and the legacy license scheme</span></strong> (each
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">And there is no indication that this has been completed. On
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this page</a>, at the bottom, it says that the aim is to have this completed by January 2019. If it has been completed, I don't think it has been communicated well, because all public facing documentation still refers to it being in progress.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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</blockquote><p class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="">The process is still in progress. The online documentation is accurate.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class=""> -Hal<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Could you offer some guidance on what the current status of the re-license is and how I should communicate this to my company's legal department?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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