For consistency and ease of management, the project requires the copyright + for all LLVM software to be held by a single copyright holder: the University + of Illinois (UIUC).
+ +Although UIUC may eventually reassign the copyright of the software to + another entity (e.g. a dedicated non-profit "LLVM Organization") the intent + for the project is to always have a single entity hold the copyrights to LLVM + at any given time.
-The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the - copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors - who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the - LLVM License.
- -An implication of this is that the LLVM license is unlikely to ever change: - changing it would require tracking down all the contributors to LLVM and - getting them to agree that a license change is acceptable for their - contribution. Since there are no plans to change the license, this is not a - cause for concern.
- -As a contributor to the project, this means that you (or your company) retain - ownership of the code you contribute, that it cannot be used in a way that - contradicts the license (which is a liberal BSD-style license), and that the - license for your contributions won't change without your approval in the - future.
- +We believe that having a single copyright holder is in the best interests of + all developers and users as it greatly reduces the managerial burden for any + kind of administrative or technical decisions about LLVM. The goal of the + LLVM project is to always keep the code open and licensed + under a very liberal license.