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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:
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040027
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040028Alexander Monakov
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040029Anthony G. Basile
30Arvid Picciani
31Bobby Bingham
32Boris Brezillon
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040033Brent Cook
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040034Chris Spiegel
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040035Clément Vasseur
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040036Denys Vlasenko
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040037Emil Renner Berthing
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040038Felix Fietkau
39Felix Janda
40Gianluca Anzolin
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040041Hiltjo Posthuma
42Isaac Dunham
43Jens Gustedt
44Jeremy Huntwork
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040045Joakim Sindholt
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040046John Spencer
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040047Josiah Worcester
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040048Justin Cormack
49Luca Barbato
50Luka Perkov
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040051M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040052Michael Forney
53Nicholas J. Kain
54orc
55Pascal Cuoq
56Pierre Carrier
57Rich Felker
58Richard Pennington
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040059sin
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040060Solar Designer
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040061Stefan Kristiansson
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040062Szabolcs Nagy
63Timo Teräs
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040064Trutz Behn
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040065Valentin Ochs
66William Haddon
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040067
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040068Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
69under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
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71The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
Rich Felkerdf82f8f2012-03-24 17:46:42 -040072src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
73under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
74included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
75the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050076
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040077Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
nsz3a6c8282012-03-13 16:06:43 +010078Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
79Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
80Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
81Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
82Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040083and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
84have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
85
86The ARM memcpy code (src/string/armel/memcpy.s) is Copyright © 2008
87The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
88license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050089
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -040090The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt_des.c) is
91Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
92
93The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/misc/crypt_blowfish.c) was
94originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
95domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
96in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050097
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -040098The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -040099Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -0400100
Rich Felkerfebbd122011-06-25 18:18:57 -0400101The BSD PRNG implementation (src/prng/random.c) and XSI search API
102(src/search/*.c) functions are Copyright © 2011 Szabolcs Nagy and
103licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
104and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
105hereby granted. There is no warranty."
Rich Felkerc7ce1b22011-06-23 18:02:23 -0400106
Rich Felker8cfbc8b2012-05-05 00:02:04 -0400107The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. Several files (crt)
108were released into the public domain; others are licensed under the
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -0400109standard MIT license terms at the top of this file. See individual
110files for their copyright status.
Rich Felker0b9a1ed2011-02-15 14:52:11 -0500111
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500112The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
113Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
114by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
115integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400116
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500117The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
118and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
119under the standard MIT terms.
120
121All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400122produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
123by Rich Felker, the main author of the library, or by one or more
124contibutors listed above. Details on authorship of individual files
125can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
126omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
127interest of source tree size.
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129All public header files (include/* and arch/*/bits/*) should be
Rich Felker87646462013-04-20 14:01:33 -0400130treated as Public Domain as they intentionally contain no content
131which can be covered by copyright. Some source modules may fall in
132this category as well. If you believe that a file is so trivial that
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Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400136The following files are trivial, believed not to be copyrightable in
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500137the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
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Rich Felker5d37b792013-04-20 14:03:12 -0400139All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500140Startup files: crt/*