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Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -04001musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
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4Copyright © 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al.
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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040026Authors/contributors include:
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040027
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040028Anthony G. Basile
29Arvid Picciani
30Bobby Bingham
31Boris Brezillon
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040032Brent Cook
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040033Chris Spiegel
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040034Clément Vasseur
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040035Emil Renner Berthing
36Hiltjo Posthuma
37Isaac Dunham
38Jens Gustedt
39Jeremy Huntwork
40John Spencer
41Justin Cormack
42Luca Barbato
43Luka Perkov
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040044M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040045Michael Forney
46Nicholas J. Kain
47orc
48Pascal Cuoq
49Pierre Carrier
50Rich Felker
51Richard Pennington
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040052sin
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040053Solar Designer
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040054Stefan Kristiansson
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040055Szabolcs Nagy
56Timo Teräs
57Valentin Ochs
58William Haddon
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040059
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040060Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
61under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050062
63The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
Rich Felkerdf82f8f2012-03-24 17:46:42 -040064src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
65under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
66included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
67the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050068
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040069Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
nsz3a6c8282012-03-13 16:06:43 +010070Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
71Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
72Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
73Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
74Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040075and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
76have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
77
78The ARM memcpy code (src/string/armel/memcpy.s) is Copyright © 2008
79The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
80license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050081
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -040082The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt_des.c) is
83Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
84
85The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/misc/crypt_blowfish.c) was
86originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
87domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
88in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050089
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -040090The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040091Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -040092
Rich Felkerfebbd122011-06-25 18:18:57 -040093The BSD PRNG implementation (src/prng/random.c) and XSI search API
94(src/search/*.c) functions are Copyright © 2011 Szabolcs Nagy and
95licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
96and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
97hereby granted. There is no warranty."
Rich Felkerc7ce1b22011-06-23 18:02:23 -040098
Rich Felker8cfbc8b2012-05-05 00:02:04 -040099The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. Several files (crt)
100were released into the public domain; others are licensed under the
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -0400101standard MIT license terms at the top of this file. See individual
102files for their copyright status.
Rich Felker0b9a1ed2011-02-15 14:52:11 -0500103
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500104The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
105Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
106by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
107integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400108
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500109The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
110and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
111under the standard MIT terms.
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113All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400114produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
115by Rich Felker, the main author of the library, or by one or more
116contibutors listed above. Details on authorship of individual files
117can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
118omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
119interest of source tree size.
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121All public header files (include/* and arch/*/bits/*) should be
Rich Felker87646462013-04-20 14:01:33 -0400122treated as Public Domain as they intentionally contain no content
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124this category as well. If you believe that a file is so trivial that
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Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500127
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400128The following files are trivial, believed not to be copyrightable in
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500129the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
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Rich Felker5d37b792013-04-20 14:03:12 -0400131All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500132Startup files: crt/*