[llvm-dev] possible violation of the LLVM-license in commercial product

Chris Lattner via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Dec 20 13:28:25 PST 2017


> On Dec 20, 2017, at 1:51 AM, robert via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> while digging around in the machine code of a forex trading program I found that they use llvm for their plugin intrastructure. But neither in their documentation nor in the distrubuted files are mentions of the LLVM-license. In my opinion this is a violation of the condition: "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
> Can you please tell me how to handle this case? Does anyone have experience with such cases and is willing to have a look at the present case in detail?

I’d suggest politely pointing this out to them through some official channel and ask them to fix that.  It is probably a simple oversight and they may have included it in a place that you haven’t found.  If missing, they just need to add it to some documentation they include (for example).  

-Chris




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