[PATCH] D96482: [DeveloperPolicy] Specify LLVM's license more clearly.

[Kristof Beyls via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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Before, the first mention of LLVM's license on the developer policy page stated
that LLVM's license is Apache 2. This patch makes that more accurate by
mentioning the LLVM exception this first time the LLVM license is discussed on
that page, i.e. Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception.

Technically, the correct SPDX identifier for LLVM's license is 'Apache-2.0 WITH
LLVM-exception', but I thought that writing the 'WITH' in lower case made the
paragraph easier to read without reducing clarity.


Repository:
  rG LLVM Github Monorepo

https://reviews.llvm.org/D96482

Files:
  llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst


Index: llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
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--- llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
+++ llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
@@ -786,8 +786,9 @@
 This section addresses the issues of copyright, license and patents for the LLVM
 project.  The copyright for the code is held by the contributors of
 the code.  The code is licensed under permissive `open source licensing terms`_,
-namely the Apache 2 license, which includes a copyright and `patent license`_.
-When you contribute code to the LLVM project, you license it under these terms.
+namely the Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception license, which includes a copyright
+and `patent license`_.  When you contribute code to the LLVM project, you
+license it under these terms.
 
 If you have questions or comments about these topics, please contact the
 `LLVM Developer's Mailing List <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>`_.  However,


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