[llvm-commits] [llvm] r114886 - /llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
Chris Lattner
sabre at nondot.org
Mon Sep 27 14:17:15 PDT 2010
Author: lattner
Date: Mon Sep 27 16:17:15 2010
New Revision: 114886
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=114886&view=rev
Log:
reapply developer policy changes after discussion.
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html?rev=114886&r1=114885&r2=114886&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html Mon Sep 27 16:17:15 2010
@@ -509,20 +509,24 @@
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>For consistency and ease of management, the project requires the copyright
- for all LLVM software to be held by a single copyright holder: the University
- of Illinois (UIUC).</p>
-
-<p>Although UIUC may eventually reassign the copyright of the software to
- another entity (e.g. a dedicated non-profit "LLVM Organization") the intent
- for the project is to always have a single entity hold the copyrights to LLVM
- at any given time.</p>
-
-<p>We believe that having a single copyright holder is in the best interests of
- all developers and users as it greatly reduces the managerial burden for any
- kind of administrative or technical decisions about LLVM. The goal of the
- LLVM project is to always keep the code open and <a href="#license">licensed
- under a very liberal license</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the
+ copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors
+ who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the
+ <a href="#license">LLVM License</a>.</p>
+
+<p>An implication of this is that the LLVM license is unlikely to ever change:
+ changing it would require tracking down all the contributors to LLVM and
+ getting them to agree that a license change is acceptable for their
+ contribution. Since there are no plans to change the license, this is not a
+ cause for concern.</p>
+
+<p>As a contributor to the project, this means that you (or your company) retain
+ ownership of the code you contribute, that it cannot be used in a way that
+ contradicts the license (which is a liberal BSD-style license), and that the
+ license for your contributions won't change without your approval in the
+ future.</p>
+
</div>
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