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Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -05001musl as a whole is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later.
2See the file COPYING for the text of this license.
3
4See below for the copyright status on all code included in musl:
5
6The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
7src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2006 Ville Laurikari and licensed
8under the terms of the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. The included
9version was heavily modified in Spring 2006 by Rich Felker in the
10interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
11
Rich Felker6f21da62012-03-16 19:18:00 -040012The math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is derived mostly
13from FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Copyright information is included in the
14comments in the individual files, all of which are licensed under
15extremely permissive terms compatible with the GNU LGPL.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050016
17The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt.c) is Copyright ©
181994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license compatible with
19the GNU LGPL.
20
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -040021The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
22Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license compatible
23with the GNU LGPL.
24
Rich Felkerfebbd122011-06-25 18:18:57 -040025The BSD PRNG implementation (src/prng/random.c) and XSI search API
26(src/search/*.c) functions are Copyright © 2011 Szabolcs Nagy and
27licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
28and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
29hereby granted. There is no warranty."
Rich Felkerc7ce1b22011-06-23 18:02:23 -040030
Rich Felker0b9a1ed2011-02-15 14:52:11 -050031The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. See individual files
32for their copyright status.
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Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050034All files which have no copyright comments are original works
Rich Felker6f21da62012-03-16 19:18:00 -040035Copyright © 2005-2012 Rich Felker, the main author of this library.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -050036The decision to exclude such comments is intentional, as it should be
37possible to carry around the complete source code on tiny storage
38media. All public header files (include/*) should be treated as Public
39Domain as they intentionally contain no content which can be covered
40by copyright. Some source modules may fall in this category as well.
41If you believe that a file is so trivial that it should be in the
42Public Domain, please contact me and, if I agree, I will explicitly
43release it from copyright.
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -050044
45The following files are trivial, in my opinion not copyrightable in
46the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
47
48All public headers: include/*
49Startup files: crt/*