[cfe-dev] citing clang?

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

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> 21.09.2011, 21:17, "John McCall" <rjmccall at apple.com>:
>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:34 AM, John Regehr wrote:
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>>>  I need to reference clang in a paper; anyone know of a better way than this?
>>> 
>>>  @misc{Clang:URL,
>>>    author = "{Apple, Inc.}",
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>> 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.
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> According to [1], copyright holder is the University of Illinois. 
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> [1] http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp

How do you draw that conclusion?  "project is held by its respective contributors".  Only the clang code contributed by UIUC is copyright UIUC.

-Chris