[LLVMdev] libc++ and compiler_rt license change

[Bryce Lelbach]

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This is a great boon for me; I'm incredibly grateful for this change (especially
as I imagine contacting all the authors was no easy task).

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:50:24 -0800
Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that libc++ and compiler_rt and now dual
> licensed under *both* the UIUC and MIT license.  The reason for this is that
> the UIUC license (like many BSD licenses) requires that binaries that link
> LLVM code contain a notice that they are derived from LLVM.
> 
> This clause doesn't make sense for libraries like libc++ and compiler_rt:
> these get implicitly added to the link line by the clang driver, so users of
> the clang compiler don't know that they're linking in pieces of LLVM.  For
> example, if Mozilla was every shipped built with Clang, it should not have to
> have a notice saying that it has code derived from LLVM (unless they were
> using the JIT or something other LLVM component).
> 
> Since copyright is distributed among all the contributors, we got approval
> from everyone who has contributed to these two projects, and had to revert
> one libc++ patch (whose author did not respond to numerous requests).  Going
> forward, contributions to these two projects will require that you allow your
> code to be used under either license.  One bad thing about this change is
> that it is no longer valid to move code from a "just UIUC licensed" codebase
> to libc++ or compiler_rt unless the copyright owner approves, but I don't
> expect this to be a significant issue in practice.
> 
> I added a paragraph here to explain this, please let me know if the wording
> doesn't make sense: http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license
> 
> -Chris
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