diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html index 9bc6446a124..753dbf7ce5d 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html +++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html @@ -442,9 +442,19 @@ Changes</a></div> <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="patents">Patents</a></div> <div class="doc_text"> -<p>Contributions must not knowingly infringe on any patents. To the best of - our knowledge, LLVM is free of any existing patent violations and it is our - intent to keep it that way.</p> +<p>To the best of our knowledge, LLVM does not infringe on any patents (we have + actually removed code from LLVM in the past that was found to infringe). + Having code in LLVM that infringes on patents would violate the one of the + goals of the project by making it hard or impossible to reuse the code for + arbitrary purposes.</p> + +<p>When contributing code, we expect contributors to notify us of any potential + for patent-related trouble with their changes. If you own the rights to a + patent and would like to contribute code to LLVM that relies on it, we + require that you sign an agreement that allows any other user of LLVM to + freely use your patent. Please contact the <a + href="mailto:llvm-oversight@cs.uiuc.edu">oversight group</a> for more + details.</p> </div> |
