[llvm-dev] RFC #3: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community

[Chris Lattner via llvm-dev]

On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:59 AM, David Chisnall via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> My chief concern is that if I do (for any foo.cc):
> 
> $ c++ -static foo.cc
> 
> Then the resulting a.out should not come with any attribution requirements (for compiler-rt or libc++).  If it does, then we are going to end up with a large number of accidental license violations.

Right.  The intention is that that does not require attribution due to the exception.

-Chris