An LLVM backend for Sparse [LWN.net]

An LLVM backend for Sparse

Posted Aug 30, 2011 9:10 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: An LLVM backend for Sparse by jmalcolm
Parent article: An LLVM backend for Sparse

Also note that Sparse has a slightly odd license (OSL 1.1). Odd enough to keep it out of e.g. the main Debian archive:

From the copyright file of the Debian package:

This package is targetted at the Debian "non-free" section because of the
"Jurisdiction, Venue and Governing Law" clause (11). The "Mutual Termination
for Patent Action" clause (10) is less problematic, especially in the light of
the "Grant of Patent License" clause (2).

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An LLVM backend for Sparse

Posted Aug 30, 2011 10:50 UTC (Tue) by penberg (subscriber, #30234) [Link]

There's people working on getting Sparse re-licensed under the MIT license:

http://lwn.net/Articles/328560/