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...would be equally fine by me, of course, but I don't see that > happening. (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer). Copyright protects creative expression rather than ideas or facts (although some jurisdictions do have a copyright-like idea of 'database rights' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right). Referring to Clang source to ascertain certain facts wouldn't necessarily put any requirement on the licensing of the code you later produce. However for safety many might prefer not to look at the source so that any incidental similarities can't be accused of being due to copying code di...

Hi Everyone, I’d like to start a discussion about how to improve some important issues we have in the LLVM community, regarding our license and patent policy. Before we get started, I’d like to emphasize that *this is an RFC*, intended for discussion. There is no time pressure to do something fast here -- we want to do the right long-term thing for the community (though we also don’t want