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clarify that the advantages of the BSD license apply to when you inco…
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…rporate clang into proprietary code bases,

patch by Jonathan Sauer.


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Expand Up @@ -329,13 +329,15 @@ <h3><a name="license">Use the LLVM 'BSD' License</a></h3>
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<p>We actively intend for clang (and LLVM as a whole) to be used for
commercial projects, and the BSD license is the simplest way to allow this. We
feel that the license encourages contributors to pick up the source and work
with it, and believe that those individuals and organizations will contribute
back their work if they do not want to have to maintain a fork forever (which is
time consuming and expensive when merges are involved). Further, nobody makes
money on compilers these days, but many people need them to get bigger goals
accomplished: it makes sense for everyone to work together.</p>
commercial projects, not only as a stand-alone compiler but also as a library
embedded inside a proprietary application. The BSD license is the simplest way
to allow this. We feel that the license encourages contributors to pick up the
source and work with it, and believe that those individuals and organizations
will contribute back their work if they do not want to have to maintain a fork
forever (which is time consuming and expensive when merges are involved).
Further, nobody makes money on compilers these days, but many people need them
to get bigger goals accomplished: it makes sense for everyone to work
together.</p>

<p>For more information about the LLVM/clang license, please see the <a
href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">LLVM License
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