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On 07/06/2011 07:10 PM, Chris Lattner wrote: > On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: > >>> There is no need to include any notices in the binaries of an application built with clang, or some with some other application that links to the LLVM runtime libraries that are dual licensed. >> Thanks for your response. Is this ability to distribute binaries without...

On 07/06/2011 05:13 AM, Chris Lattner wrote: > On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: >> The runtime library components state that they are licensed under >> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php which does not >> contain a specific clause regarding binary redistribution. This seems to >> have been interpreted as not placing any restrictio...

On 07/07/2011 02:25 AM, Chris Lattner wrote: > I, and many other reasonable people, consider the phrase: > > "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." > > ... to be talking about *copies of the software*. A binary is not a copy of the software, it is a lump of bits derived from it. >

My impression from reading http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp is that it's intended to be possible to compile programs using llvm and distribute the resulting binaries freely. This does not seem to be the case. I'm assuming no portion of LLVM is included in the compiled binaries, only the runtime library components, so that the compiled binaries are not derived from LLVM.

On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: >>> Is it sufficient to include the MIT copyright notices from >>> http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/compiler-rt/trunk/LICENSE.TXT / >>> http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk/LICENSE.TXT for programs >>> compiled with LLVM? (Probably including the...

On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: > On 07/06/2011 07:10 PM, Chris Lattner wrote: >> On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: >> >>>> There is no need to include any notices in the binaries of an application built with clang, or some with some other application that links to the LLVM...

On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Tor Gunnar Houeland wrote: > My impression from reading http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp > is that it's intended to be possible to compile programs using llvm and > distribute the resulting binaries freely. This does not seem to be the case. > > I'm assuming no portion of LLVM i...