[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html

[Chris Lattner]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

DeveloperPolicy.html updated: 1.34 -> 1.35
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Log message:

clarify llvm-gcc GPL issue


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Diffs of the changes:  (+6 -6)

 DeveloperPolicy.html |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


Index: llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
diff -u llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html:1.34 llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html:1.35
--- llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html:1.34	Mon Feb 19 12:32:40 2007
+++ llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html	Thu Feb 22 00:33:23 2007
@@ -442,13 +442,13 @@
   read the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">License</a>
   if further clarification is needed.</p>
   
-  <p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute some code that includes GPL
-  software (notably, llvm-gcc which is based on the GCC GPL source base).
+  <p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute llvm-gcc, <b>which is GPL.</b>
   This means that anything "linked" into llvm-gcc must itself be compatible
   with the GPL, and must be releasable under the terms of the GPL.  This implies
-  that <b>any code linked into llvm-gcc and distributed to others may be
-  subject to
-  the viral aspects of the GPL</b>.  This is not a problem for the main LLVM
+  that <b>any code linked into llvm-gcc and distributed to others may be subject
+  to the viral aspects of the GPL</b> (for example, a proprietary code generator
+  linked into llvm-gcc must be made available under
+  the GPL).  This is not a problem for the main LLVM
   distribution (which is already licensed under a more liberal license), but may
   be a problem if you intend to base commercial development on llvm-gcc without
   redistributing your source code.</p>
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
   Written by the 
   <a href="mailto:llvm-oversight at cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Oversight Group</a><br>
   <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2007/02/19 18:32:40 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2007/02/22 06:33:23 $
 </address>
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