[LLVMdev] commerical usage

[Morten Ofstad]

And don't forget Tzu-Chien Chiu who's using LLVM in graphics drivers for compiling high-level shading languages (Seems 
LLVM is popular with the graphics crowd ;-) ...
http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~jwchiu/
http://www.xgitech.com/

m.


Vikram S. Adve wrote:
> 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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