[LLVMdev] commerical usage

[Vikram S. Adve]

In addition, there are groups at STMicroelectronics and at Siemens  
that have used or are considering using LLVM.   Note that these are  
internal development projects for now -- they (and Apple) have not  
publicly announced products based on LLVM.

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/


On Feb 14, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Misha Brukman wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:53:05AM +0100, Jonas Gustavsson wrote:
>> I have been looking at the LLVM project for quite a bit but I was
>> wondering if there are any implication of using the project in a
>> commercial enviroment in terms of licensing restrictions and other
>> related issues, are there other people that use LLVM in a commecial
>> enviroment?
>
> LLVM's license is a 3-clause BSD-style which permits commercial usage
> without distributing the source.  The C/C++ front-end is based on GCC,
> so it is GPL-licensed, which is another story entirely.
>
> LLVM is currently used commercially by hue.no (Morten Ofstad from that
> company is on the list), and Apple uses LLVM and employs several  
> people
> who work on it, including Chris Lattner, Nate Begeman, Jim Laskey, and
> Evan Cheng.  Reid Spencer may be using LLVM commercially, but I am not
> sure.
>
> There are several people who have emailed llvm-dev while they were
> evaluating LLVM for what appeared to be commercial use, but I am not
> aware of anyone else who publically announced commercial usage.
>
> BTW, if you are reading this and you are using LLVM commercially and
> aren't trying to hide that fact :), please email the list (or just
> me), and I'll compile a webpage.   I think it would be nice to have a
> list of products where LLVM is used commercially -- currently, we only
> have a list of academic and open-source projects that use LLVM.
>
> If you need any enticement to email me, think of it as free
> advertisement.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Misha Brukman :: http://misha.brukman.net
>
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