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LLVM contemplates relicensing

LLVM contemplates relicensing

[Development] Posted Sep 19, 2016 16:38 UTC (Mon) by corbet

The LLVM project is currently distributed under the BSD-like NCSA license, but the project is considering a change in the interest of better patent protection. "After extensive discussion involving many lawyers with different affiliations, we recommend taking the approach of using the Apache 2.0 license, with the binary attribution exception (discussed before), and add an additional exception to handle the situation of GPL2 compatibility if it ever arises."

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