robert via llvm-dev
2017-Dec-20 09:51 UTC
[llvm-dev] possible violation of the LLVM-license in commercial product
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? Best Wishes Robert
Chris Lattner via llvm-dev
2017-Dec-20 21:28 UTC
[llvm-dev] possible violation of the LLVM-license in commercial product
> 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