[cfe-dev] citing clang?

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Wed Sep 21 10:50:14 PDT 2011



21.09.2011, 21:17, "John McCall" <rjmccall at apple.com>:
> On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:34 AM, John Regehr wrote:
>
>>  I need to reference clang in a paper; anyone know of a better way than this?
>>
>>  @misc{Clang:URL,
>>    author = "{Apple, Inc.}",
>
> It's inappropriate to cite clang as Apple-authored;  it's an open source project which Apple puts resources into, just like the Linux kernel is an open source project which other companies put resources into.
>
> This is just a citation for a general reference, rather than a specific quote from the source code and/or website?  I would just leave out the author entirely.

According to [1], copyright holder is the University of Illinois. 

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp

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Regards,
Konstantin



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