[llvm-dev] Relicensing: Revised Developer Policy

Chris Lattner via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 10 17:30:38 PDT 2017


On Aug 10, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Rafael Avila de Espindola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have no problem changing the license to something FreeBSD and OpenBSD
>>> are happy with.
>> 
>> I request that you let other people worry about and represent their own concerns: there is no need for you to try to defend or represent other other people’s interests.  There is a lot of diligence that is happening off list, which is one of the reasons progress is slow.  We’re doing everything possible to make sure the right thing happens for users and contributors, even if it is at the expense of calendar time.
>> 
>> That said, my understanding is that they are currently evaluating this, and the current (but not finalized) belief is that the new license is good for FreeBSD.  
> 
> It is my interest to see my code used. In particular I am really excited
> to see llvm/clang/lld/lldb/etc replacing more and more of the previous
> components on these systems. I really don't want to harm that change.
> 
> If FreeBSD and OpenBSD are OK with license X, I am OK with license X.

Great, thanks Rafael. I totally understand where you’re coming from.  I think that many of us contributors care a lot about our code being used as widely as possible :-)

-Chris



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