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| author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2007-02-22 06:33:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2007-02-22 06:33:23 +0000 |
| commit | 7d8012b602ee3456072bf61a10574d8753990eac (patch) | |
| tree | 4b278e53585581004c08d7eca61421bd6a32cf85 /docs/DeveloperPolicy.html | |
| parent | 15aab8a723f9a316fe387af22a21b2a3abbaa066 (diff) | |
clarify llvm-gcc GPL issue
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@34486 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html index 871cc72428..e5e7b12b5f 100644 --- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html +++ b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html @@ -442,13 +442,13 @@ Changes</a></div> read the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">License</a> if further clarification is needed.</p> - <p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute some code that includes GPL - software (notably, llvm-gcc which is based on the GCC GPL source base). + <p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute llvm-gcc, <b>which is GPL.</b> This means that anything "linked" into llvm-gcc must itself be compatible with the GPL, and must be releasable under the terms of the GPL. This implies - that <b>any code linked into llvm-gcc and distributed to others may be - subject to - the viral aspects of the GPL</b>. This is not a problem for the main LLVM + that <b>any code linked into llvm-gcc and distributed to others may be subject + to the viral aspects of the GPL</b> (for example, a proprietary code generator + linked into llvm-gcc must be made available under + the GPL). This is not a problem for the main LLVM distribution (which is already licensed under a more liberal license), but may be a problem if you intend to base commercial development on llvm-gcc without redistributing your source code.</p> |