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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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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040026Authors/contributors include:
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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040028Anthony G. Basile
29Arvid Picciani
30Bobby Bingham
31Boris Brezillon
32Chris Spiegel
33Emil Renner Berthing
34Hiltjo Posthuma
35Isaac Dunham
36Jens Gustedt
37Jeremy Huntwork
38John Spencer
39Justin Cormack
40Luca Barbato
41Luka Perkov
42Michael Forney
43Nicholas J. Kain
44orc
45Pascal Cuoq
46Pierre Carrier
47Rich Felker
48Richard Pennington
49Solar Designer
50Strake
51Szabolcs Nagy
52Timo Teräs
53Valentin Ochs
54William Haddon
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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040056Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
57under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
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59The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
Rich Felkerdf82f8f2012-03-24 17:46:42 -040060src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
61under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
62included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
63the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050064
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040065Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
nsz3a6c8282012-03-13 16:06:43 +010066Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
67Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
68Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
69Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
70Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040071and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
72have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
73
74The ARM memcpy code (src/string/armel/memcpy.s) is Copyright © 2008
75The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
76license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050077
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -040078The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt_des.c) is
79Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
80
81The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/misc/crypt_blowfish.c) was
82originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
83domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
84in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050085
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -040086The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040087Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
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Rich Felkerfebbd122011-06-25 18:18:57 -040089The BSD PRNG implementation (src/prng/random.c) and XSI search API
90(src/search/*.c) functions are Copyright © 2011 Szabolcs Nagy and
91licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
92and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
93hereby granted. There is no warranty."
Rich Felkerc7ce1b22011-06-23 18:02:23 -040094
Rich Felker8cfbc8b2012-05-05 00:02:04 -040095The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. Several files (crt)
96were released into the public domain; others are licensed under the
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98files for their copyright status.
Rich Felker0b9a1ed2011-02-15 14:52:11 -050099
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500100The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
101Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
102by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
103integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400104
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500105The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
106and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
107under the standard MIT terms.
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109All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400110produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
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113can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
114omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
115interest of source tree size.
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Rich Felker87646462013-04-20 14:01:33 -0400118treated as Public Domain as they intentionally contain no content
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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400124The following files are trivial, believed not to be copyrightable in
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500125the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
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Rich Felker5d37b792013-04-20 14:03:12 -0400127All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500128Startup files: crt/*