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author | Haneef Mubarak <haneefmubarak@users.noreply.github.com> | 2014-02-22 19:06:44 -0800 |
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committer | Haneef Mubarak <haneefmubarak@users.noreply.github.com> | 2014-02-22 19:07:35 -0800 |
commit | 6233cc5e8bce542cfaa6d930c15215f14cfe2bc1 (patch) | |
tree | 75707e3f6ae3edee0cb9d43b85515c9675a1796e /README.md | |
parent | d250abb7cb41043dc3f8cbf3cc4de3be2bdf614a (diff) |
rewrote READMEs and other markdown docs
**all: folded to margins**
README: used local image, expanded license into a small section
CONTRIBUTING: added title
relooper README: removed licensing data (root of repo contains license)
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@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@ + - - -Emscripten -========== - -Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode - which can be generated from C/C++, using llvm-gcc or clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM - and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run). +Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode - which can be generated +from C/C++, using `llvm-gcc` (DragonEgg) or `clang`, or any other language that can be +converted into LLVM - and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or +anywhere else JavaScript can run). Links to **demos**, **tutorial**, **FAQ**, etc: <https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki> Main project page: <http://emscripten.org> -Emscripten is MIT licensed, see LICENSE.txt. +License +------- + +Emscripten is available under 2 licenses, the MIT license and the +University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. + +Both are permissive open source licenses, with little if any +practical difference between them. + +The reason for offering both is that (1) the MIT license is +well-known, while (2) the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source +License allows Emscripten's code to be integrated upstream into +LLVM, which uses that license, should the opportunity arise. +See `LICENSE` for the full content of the licenses. |