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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 Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050028A. Wilcox
Ada Worcesterdaa29e82019-11-23 17:15:38 -070029Ada Worcester
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050030Alex Dowad
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040031Alex Suykov
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040032Alexander Monakov
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040033Andre McCurdy
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050034Andrew Kelley
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040035Anthony G. Basile
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040036Aric Belsito
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040037Arvid Picciani
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050038Bartosz Brachaczek
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040039Benjamin Peterson
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040040Bobby Bingham
41Boris Brezillon
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040042Brent Cook
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040043Chris Spiegel
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040044Clément Vasseur
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050045Daniel Micay
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050046Daniel Sabogal
47Daurnimator
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040048David Carlier
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050049David Edelsohn
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040050Denys Vlasenko
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050051Dmitry Ivanov
52Dmitry V. Levin
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040053Drew DeVault
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040054Emil Renner Berthing
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040055Fangrui Song
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040056Felix Fietkau
57Felix Janda
58Gianluca Anzolin
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050059Hauke Mehrtens
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050060He X
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040061Hiltjo Posthuma
62Isaac Dunham
Rich Felker589aefa2016-03-06 17:48:58 +000063Jaydeep Patil
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040064Jens Gustedt
65Jeremy Huntwork
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050066Jo-Philipp Wich
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -040067Joakim Sindholt
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040068John Spencer
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050069Julien Ramseier
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040070Justin Cormack
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040071Kaarle Ritvanen
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050072Khem Raj
73Kylie McClain
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050074Leah Neukirchen
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040075Luca Barbato
76Luka Perkov
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040077M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
Rich Felker589aefa2016-03-06 17:48:58 +000078Mahesh Bodapati
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040079Markus Wichmann
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050080Masanori Ogino
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040081Michael Clark
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040082Michael Forney
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050083Mikhail Kremnyov
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050084Natanael Copa
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040085Nicholas J. Kain
86orc
87Pascal Cuoq
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040088Patrick Oppenlander
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050089Petr Hosek
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050090Petr Skocik
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040091Pierre Carrier
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050092Reini Urban
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -040093Rich Felker
94Richard Pennington
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040095Ryan Fairfax
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -050096Samuel Holland
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -040097Segev Finer
Rich Felker790580b2016-02-18 15:14:15 -050098Shiz
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -040099sin
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400100Solar Designer
Rich Felker42726022014-07-31 16:06:11 -0400101Stefan Kristiansson
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -0400102Stefan O'Rear
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400103Szabolcs Nagy
104Timo Teräs
Rich Felkereceaf1d2015-03-16 18:43:54 -0400105Trutz Behn
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400106Valentin Ochs
Rich Felker7a6c8a02019-07-15 18:26:30 -0400107Will Dietz
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400108William Haddon
Rich Felker1366b3c2018-02-21 14:19:01 -0500109William Pitcock
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -0400110
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400111Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
112under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -0500113
114The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
Rich Felkerdf82f8f2012-03-24 17:46:42 -0400115src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
116under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
117included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
118the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -0500119
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400120Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
nsz3a6c8282012-03-13 16:06:43 +0100121Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
122Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
123Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
124Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
Szabolcs Nagydb3cc9a2019-10-02 22:07:49 +0000125Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier or
126Copyright © 2017-2018 Arm Limited
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400127and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
128have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
129
Rich Felkerdc4520d2016-03-18 23:46:41 -0400130The ARM memcpy code (src/string/arm/memcpy_el.S) is Copyright © 2008
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400131The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
132license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -0500133
Rich Felkerdc4520d2016-03-18 23:46:41 -0400134The implementation of DES for crypt (src/crypt/crypt_des.c) is
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400135Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
136
Rich Felkerdc4520d2016-03-18 23:46:41 -0400137The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/crypt/crypt_blowfish.c) was
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400138originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
139domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
140in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
Rich Felker0b44a032011-02-12 00:22:29 -0500141
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -0400142The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
Rich Felker3f063692012-05-05 00:16:21 -0400143Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
Rich Felker22263702011-04-27 13:27:04 -0400144
Rich Felkerf0a61392016-04-28 20:41:45 -0400145The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain and is licensed under
146the standard MIT terms.
Rich Felker0b9a1ed2011-02-15 14:52:11 -0500147
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500148The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
149Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
150by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
151integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
Rich Felker0d4d1a92012-08-15 00:19:42 -0400152
Rich Felker589aefa2016-03-06 17:48:58 +0000153The mips64 port was contributed by Imagination Technologies and is
154licensed under the standard MIT terms.
155
Rich Felker22781b42012-11-14 20:24:46 -0500156The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
157and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
158under the standard MIT terms.
159
160All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
Rich Felker4ed1d0a2014-03-20 00:34:19 -0400161produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
162by Rich Felker, the main author of the library, or by one or more
163contibutors listed above. Details on authorship of individual files
164can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
165omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
166interest of source tree size.
167
Rich Felkerf0a61392016-04-28 20:41:45 -0400168In addition, permission is hereby granted for all public header files
169(include/* and arch/*/bits/*) and crt files intended to be linked into
170applications (crt/*, ldso/dlstart.c, and arch/*/crt_arch.h) to omit
171the copyright notice and permission notice otherwise required by the
172license, and to use these files without any requirement of
173attribution. These files include substantial contributions from:
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500174
Rich Felkerf0a61392016-04-28 20:41:45 -0400175Bobby Bingham
176John Spencer
177Nicholas J. Kain
178Rich Felker
179Richard Pennington
180Stefan Kristiansson
181Szabolcs Nagy
Rich Felker05ea0452011-02-13 23:32:01 -0500182
Rich Felkerf0a61392016-04-28 20:41:45 -0400183all of whom have explicitly granted such permission.
184
185This file previously contained text expressing a belief that most of
186the files covered by the above exception were sufficiently trivial not
187to be subject to copyright, resulting in confusion over whether it
188negated the permissions granted in the license. In the spirit of
189permissive licensing, and of not having licensing issues being an
190obstacle to adoption, that text has been removed.