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11 <h1>LLVM Developer Policy</h1>
13 <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#policies">Developer Policies</a>
16 <li><a href="#informed">Stay Informed</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#patches">Making a Patch</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#reviews">Code Reviews</a></li>
19 <li><a href="#owners">Code Owners</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#testcases">Test Cases</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#quality">Quality</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#commitaccess">Obtaining Commit Access</a></li>
23 <li><a href="#newwork">Making a Major Change</a></li>
24 <li><a href="#incremental">Incremental Development</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#attribution">Attribution of Changes</a></li>
27 <li><a href="#clp">Copyright, License, and Patents</a>
29 <li><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#patents">Patents</a></li>
34 <div class="doc_author">Written by the LLVM Oversight Team</div>
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37 <h2><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
38 <!--=========================================================================-->
40 <p>This document contains the LLVM Developer Policy which defines the project's
41 policy towards developers and their contributions. The intent of this policy
42 is to eliminate miscommunication, rework, and confusion that might arise from
43 the distributed nature of LLVM's development. By stating the policy in clear
44 terms, we hope each developer can know ahead of time what to expect when
45 making LLVM contributions. This policy covers all llvm.org subprojects,
46 including Clang, LLDB, libc++, etc.</p>
47 <p>This policy is also designed to accomplish the following objectives:</p>
50 <li>Attract both users and developers to the LLVM project.</li>
52 <li>Make life as simple and easy for contributors as possible.</li>
54 <li>Keep the top of Subversion trees as stable as possible.</li>
56 <li>Establish awareness of the project's <a href="#clp">copyright,
57 license, and patent policies</a> with contributors to the project.</li>
60 <p>This policy is aimed at frequent contributors to LLVM. People interested in
61 contributing one-off patches can do so in an informal way by sending them to
63 <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits">llvm-commits
64 mailing list</a> and engaging another developer to see it through the
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69 <h2><a name="policies">Developer Policies</a></h2>
70 <!--=========================================================================-->
72 <p>This section contains policies that pertain to frequent LLVM developers. We
73 always welcome <a href="#patches">one-off patches</a> from people who do not
74 routinely contribute to LLVM, but we expect more from frequent contributors
75 to keep the system as efficient as possible for everyone. Frequent LLVM
76 contributors are expected to meet the following requirements in order for
77 LLVM to maintain a high standard of quality.<p>
79 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
80 <h3><a name="informed">Stay Informed</a></h3>
82 <p>Developers should stay informed by reading at least the "dev" mailing list
83 for the projects you are interested in, such as
84 <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">llvmdev</a> for
85 LLVM, <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev">cfe-dev</a>
87 href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev">lldb-dev</a>
88 for LLDB. If you are doing anything more than just casual work on LLVM, it
89 is suggested that you also subscribe to the "commits" mailing list for the
90 subproject you're interested in, such as
91 <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits">llvm-commits</a>,
92 <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits">cfe-commits</a>,
93 or <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits">lldb-commits</a>.
94 Reading the "commits" list and paying attention to changes being made by
95 others is a good way to see what other people are interested in and watching
96 the flow of the project as a whole.</p>
98 <p>We recommend that active developers register an email account with
99 <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM Bugzilla</a> and preferably subscribe to
100 the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmbugs">llvm-bugs</a>
101 email list to keep track of bugs and enhancements occurring in LLVM. We
102 really appreciate people who are proactive at catching incoming bugs in their
103 components and dealing with them promptly.</p>
106 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
107 <h3><a name="patches">Making a Patch</a></h3>
110 <p>When making a patch for review, the goal is to make it as easy for the
111 reviewer to read it as possible. As such, we recommend that you:</p>
114 <li>Make your patch against the Subversion trunk, not a branch, and not an old
115 version of LLVM. This makes it easy to apply the patch. For information
116 on how to check out SVN trunk, please see the <a
117 href="GettingStarted.html#checkout">Getting Started Guide</a>.</li>
119 <li>Similarly, patches should be submitted soon after they are generated. Old
120 patches may not apply correctly if the underlying code changes between the
121 time the patch was created and the time it is applied.</li>
123 <li>Patches should be made with <tt>svn diff</tt>, or similar. If you use
124 a different tool, make sure it uses the <tt>diff -u</tt> format and
125 that it doesn't contain clutter which makes it hard to read.</li>
127 <li>If you are modifying generated files, such as the top-level
128 <tt>configure</tt> script, please separate out those changes into
129 a separate patch from the rest of your changes.</li>
132 <p>When sending a patch to a mailing list, it is a good idea to send it as an
133 <em>attachment</em> to the message, not embedded into the text of the
134 message. This ensures that your mailer will not mangle the patch when it
135 sends it (e.g. by making whitespace changes or by wrapping lines).</p>
137 <p><em>For Thunderbird users:</em> Before submitting a patch, please open
138 <em>Preferences → Advanced → General → Config Editor</em>,
139 find the key <tt>mail.content_disposition_type</tt>, and set its value to
140 <tt>1</tt>. Without this setting, Thunderbird sends your attachment using
141 <tt>Content-Disposition: inline</tt> rather than <tt>Content-Disposition:
142 attachment</tt>. Apple Mail gamely displays such a file inline, making it
143 difficult to work with for reviewers using that program.</p>
146 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
147 <h3><a name="reviews">Code Reviews</a></h3>
149 <p>LLVM has a code review policy. Code review is one way to increase the quality
150 of software. We generally follow these policies:</p>
153 <li>All developers are required to have significant changes reviewed before
154 they are committed to the repository.</li>
156 <li>Code reviews are conducted by email, usually on the llvm-commits
159 <li>Code can be reviewed either before it is committed or after. We expect
160 major changes to be reviewed before being committed, but smaller changes
161 (or changes where the developer owns the component) can be reviewed after
164 <li>The developer responsible for a code change is also responsible for making
165 all necessary review-related changes.</li>
167 <li>Code review can be an iterative process, which continues until the patch
168 is ready to be committed.</li>
171 <p>Developers should participate in code reviews as both reviewers and
172 reviewees. If someone is kind enough to review your code, you should return
173 the favor for someone else. Note that anyone is welcome to review and give
174 feedback on a patch, but only people with Subversion write access can approve
178 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
179 <h3><a name="owners">Code Owners</a></h3>
182 <p>The LLVM Project relies on two features of its process to maintain rapid
183 development in addition to the high quality of its source base: the
184 combination of code review plus post-commit review for trusted maintainers.
185 Having both is a great way for the project to take advantage of the fact that
186 most people do the right thing most of the time, and only commit patches
187 without pre-commit review when they are confident they are right.</p>
189 <p>The trick to this is that the project has to guarantee that all patches that
190 are committed are reviewed after they go in: you don't want everyone to
191 assume someone else will review it, allowing the patch to go unreviewed. To
192 solve this problem, we have a notion of an 'owner' for a piece of the code.
193 The sole responsibility of a code owner is to ensure that a commit to their
194 area of the code is appropriately reviewed, either by themself or by someone
195 else. The current code owners are:</p>
198 <li><b>Evan Cheng</b>: Code generator and all targets.</li>
200 <li><b>Greg Clayton</b>: LLDB.</li>
202 <li><b>Doug Gregor</b>: Clang Frontend Libraries.</li>
204 <li><b>Howard Hinnant</b>: libc++.</li>
206 <li><b>Anton Korobeynikov</b>: Exception handling, debug information, and
207 Windows codegen.</li>
209 <li><b>Ted Kremenek</b>: Clang Static Analyzer.</li>
211 <li><b>Chris Lattner</b>: Everything not covered by someone else.</li>
213 <li><b>John McCall</b>: Clang LLVM IR generation.</li>
215 <li><b>Jakob Olesen</b>: Register allocators and TableGen.</li>
217 <li><b>Duncan Sands</b>: dragonegg and llvm-gcc 4.2.</li>
219 <li><b>Peter Collingbourne</b>: libclc.</li>
221 <li><b>Tobias Grosser</b>: polly.</li>
224 <p>Note that code ownership is completely different than reviewers: anyone can
225 review a piece of code, and we welcome code review from anyone who is
226 interested. Code owners are the "last line of defense" to guarantee that all
227 patches that are committed are actually reviewed.</p>
229 <p>Being a code owner is a somewhat unglamorous position, but it is incredibly
230 important for the ongoing success of the project. Because people get busy,
231 interests change, and unexpected things happen, code ownership is purely
232 opt-in, and anyone can choose to resign their "title" at any time. For now,
233 we do not have an official policy on how one gets elected to be a code
237 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
238 <h3><a name="testcases">Test Cases</a></h3>
240 <p>Developers are required to create test cases for any bugs fixed and any new
241 features added. Some tips for getting your testcase approved:</p>
244 <li>All feature and regression test cases are added to the
245 <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory. The appropriate sub-directory should be
246 selected (see the <a href="TestingGuide.html">Testing Guide</a> for
249 <li>Test cases should be written in <a href="LangRef.html">LLVM assembly
250 language</a> unless the feature or regression being tested requires
251 another language (e.g. the bug being fixed or feature being implemented is
252 in the llvm-gcc C++ front-end, in which case it must be written in
255 <li>Test cases, especially for regressions, should be reduced as much as
256 possible, by <a href="Bugpoint.html">bugpoint</a> or manually. It is
257 unacceptable to place an entire failing program into <tt>llvm/test</tt> as
258 this creates a <i>time-to-test</i> burden on all developers. Please keep
262 <p>Note that llvm/test and clang/test are designed for regression and small
263 feature tests only. More extensive test cases (e.g., entire applications,
265 should be added to the <tt>llvm-test</tt> test suite. The llvm-test suite is
266 for coverage (correctness, performance, etc) testing, not feature or
267 regression testing.</p>
270 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
271 <h3><a name="quality">Quality</a></h3>
273 <p>The minimum quality standards that any change must satisfy before being
274 committed to the main development branch are:</p>
277 <li>Code must adhere to the <a href="CodingStandards.html">LLVM Coding
280 <li>Code must compile cleanly (no errors, no warnings) on at least one
283 <li>Bug fixes and new features should <a href="#testcases">include a
284 testcase</a> so we know if the fix/feature ever regresses in the
287 <li>Code must pass the <tt>llvm/test</tt> test suite.</li>
289 <li>The code must not cause regressions on a reasonable subset of llvm-test,
290 where "reasonable" depends on the contributor's judgement and the scope of
291 the change (more invasive changes require more testing). A reasonable
292 subset might be something like
293 "<tt>llvm-test/MultiSource/Benchmarks</tt>".</li>
296 <p>Additionally, the committer is responsible for addressing any problems found
297 in the future that the change is responsible for. For example:</p>
300 <li>The code should compile cleanly on all supported platforms.</li>
302 <li>The changes should not cause any correctness regressions in the
303 <tt>llvm-test</tt> suite and must not cause any major performance
306 <li>The change set should not cause performance or correctness regressions for
309 <li>The changes should not cause performance or correctness regressions in
310 code compiled by LLVM on all applicable targets.</li>
312 <li>You are expected to address any <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">bugzilla
313 bugs</a> that result from your change.</li>
316 <p>We prefer for this to be handled before submission but understand that it
317 isn't possible to test all of this for every submission. Our build bots and
318 nightly testing infrastructure normally finds these problems. A good rule of
319 thumb is to check the nightly testers for regressions the day after your
320 change. Build bots will directly email you if a group of commits that
321 included yours caused a failure. You are expected to check the build bot
322 messages to see if they are your fault and, if so, fix the breakage.</p>
324 <p>Commits that violate these quality standards (e.g. are very broken) may be
325 reverted. This is necessary when the change blocks other developers from
326 making progress. The developer is welcome to re-commit the change after the
327 problem has been fixed.</p>
330 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
331 <h3><a name="commitaccess">Obtaining Commit Access</a></h3>
334 <p>We grant commit access to contributors with a track record of submitting high
335 quality patches. If you would like commit access, please send an email to
336 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris</a> with the following
340 <li>The user name you want to commit with, e.g. "hacker".</li>
342 <li>The full name and email address you want message to llvm-commits to come
343 from, e.g. "J. Random Hacker <hacker@yoyodyne.com>".</li>
345 <li>A "password hash" of the password you want to use, e.g. "2ACR96qjUqsyM".
346 Note that you don't ever tell us what your password is, you just give it
347 to us in an encrypted form. To get this, run "htpasswd" (a utility that
348 comes with apache) in crypt mode (often enabled with "-d"), or find a web
349 page that will do it for you.</li>
352 <p>Once you've been granted commit access, you should be able to check out an
353 LLVM tree with an SVN URL of "https://username@llvm.org/..." instead of the
354 normal anonymous URL of "http://llvm.org/...". The first time you commit
355 you'll have to type in your password. Note that you may get a warning from
356 SVN about an untrusted key, you can ignore this. To verify that your commit
357 access works, please do a test commit (e.g. change a comment or add a blank
358 line). Your first commit to a repository may require the autogenerated email
359 to be approved by a mailing list. This is normal, and will be done when
360 the mailing list owner has time.</p>
362 <p>If you have recently been granted commit access, these policies apply:</p>
365 <li>You are granted <i>commit-after-approval</i> to all parts of LLVM. To get
366 approval, submit a <a href="#patches">patch</a> to
367 <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits">llvm-commits</a>.
368 When approved you may commit it yourself.</li>
370 <li>You are allowed to commit patches without approval which you think are
371 obvious. This is clearly a subjective decision — we simply expect
372 you to use good judgement. Examples include: fixing build breakage,
373 reverting obviously broken patches, documentation/comment changes, any
374 other minor changes.</li>
376 <li>You are allowed to commit patches without approval to those portions of
377 LLVM that you have contributed or maintain (i.e., have been assigned
378 responsibility for), with the proviso that such commits must not break the
379 build. This is a "trust but verify" policy and commits of this nature are
380 reviewed after they are committed.</li>
382 <li>Multiple violations of these policies or a single egregious violation may
383 cause commit access to be revoked.</li>
386 <p>In any case, your changes are still subject to <a href="#reviews">code
387 review</a> (either before or after they are committed, depending on the
388 nature of the change). You are encouraged to review other peoples' patches
389 as well, but you aren't required to.</p>
392 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
393 <h3><a name="newwork">Making a Major Change</a></h3>
395 <p>When a developer begins a major new project with the aim of contributing it
396 back to LLVM, s/he should inform the community with an email to
397 the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">llvmdev</a>
398 email list, to the extent possible. The reason for this is to:
401 <li>keep the community informed about future changes to LLVM, </li>
403 <li>avoid duplication of effort by preventing multiple parties working on the
404 same thing and not knowing about it, and</li>
406 <li>ensure that any technical issues around the proposed work are discussed
407 and resolved before any significant work is done.</li>
410 <p>The design of LLVM is carefully controlled to ensure that all the pieces fit
411 together well and are as consistent as possible. If you plan to make a major
412 change to the way LLVM works or want to add a major new extension, it is a
413 good idea to get consensus with the development community before you start
416 <p>Once the design of the new feature is finalized, the work itself should be
417 done as a series of <a href="#incremental">incremental changes</a>, not as a
418 long-term development branch.</p>
421 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
422 <h3><a name="incremental">Incremental Development</a></h3>
424 <p>In the LLVM project, we do all significant changes as a series of incremental
425 patches. We have a strong dislike for huge changes or long-term development
426 branches. Long-term development branches have a number of drawbacks:</p>
429 <li>Branches must have mainline merged into them periodically. If the branch
430 development and mainline development occur in the same pieces of code,
431 resolving merge conflicts can take a lot of time.</li>
433 <li>Other people in the community tend to ignore work on branches.</li>
435 <li>Huge changes (produced when a branch is merged back onto mainline) are
436 extremely difficult to <a href="#reviews">code review</a>.</li>
438 <li>Branches are not routinely tested by our nightly tester
441 <li>Changes developed as monolithic large changes often don't work until the
442 entire set of changes is done. Breaking it down into a set of smaller
443 changes increases the odds that any of the work will be committed to the
444 main repository.</li>
447 <p>To address these problems, LLVM uses an incremental development style and we
448 require contributors to follow this practice when making a large/invasive
449 change. Some tips:</p>
452 <li>Large/invasive changes usually have a number of secondary changes that are
453 required before the big change can be made (e.g. API cleanup, etc). These
454 sorts of changes can often be done before the major change is done,
455 independently of that work.</li>
457 <li>The remaining inter-related work should be decomposed into unrelated sets
458 of changes if possible. Once this is done, define the first increment and
459 get consensus on what the end goal of the change is.</li>
461 <li>Each change in the set can be stand alone (e.g. to fix a bug), or part of
462 a planned series of changes that works towards the development goal.</li>
464 <li>Each change should be kept as small as possible. This simplifies your work
465 (into a logical progression), simplifies code review and reduces the
466 chance that you will get negative feedback on the change. Small increments
467 also facilitate the maintenance of a high quality code base.</li>
469 <li>Often, an independent precursor to a big change is to add a new API and
470 slowly migrate clients to use the new API. Each change to use the new API
471 is often "obvious" and can be committed without review. Once the new API
472 is in place and used, it is much easier to replace the underlying
473 implementation of the API. This implementation change is logically
474 separate from the API change.</li>
477 <p>If you are interested in making a large change, and this scares you, please
478 make sure to first <a href="#newwork">discuss the change/gather consensus</a>
479 then ask about the best way to go about making the change.</p>
482 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
483 <h3><a name="attribution">Attribution of Changes</a></h3>
485 <p>We believe in correct attribution of contributions to their contributors.
486 However, we do not want the source code to be littered with random
487 attributions "this code written by J. Random Hacker" (this is noisy and
488 distracting). In practice, the revision control system keeps a perfect
489 history of who changed what, and the CREDITS.txt file describes higher-level
490 contributions. If you commit a patch for someone else, please say "patch
491 contributed by J. Random Hacker!" in the commit message.</p>
493 <p>Overall, please do not add contributor names to the source code.</p>
498 <!--=========================================================================-->
500 <a name="clp">Copyright, License, and Patents</a>
502 <!--=========================================================================-->
506 <div class="doc_notes">
507 <p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold">NOTE: This section deals with
508 legal matters but does not provide legal advice. We are not lawyers —
509 please seek legal counsel from an attorney.</p>
513 <p>This section addresses the issues of copyright, license and patents for the
514 LLVM project. The copyright for the code is held by the individual
515 contributors of the code and the terms of its license to LLVM users and
517 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">University of
518 Illinois/NCSA Open Source License</a> (with portions dual licensed under the
519 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT License</a>,
520 see below). As contributor to the LLVM project, you agree to allow any
521 contributions to the project to licensed under these terms.</p>
524 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
525 <h3><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></h3>
528 <p>The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the
529 copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors
530 who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the
531 <a href="#license">LLVM License</a>.</p>
533 <p>An implication of this is that the LLVM license is unlikely to ever change:
534 changing it would require tracking down all the contributors to LLVM and
535 getting them to agree that a license change is acceptable for their
536 contribution. Since there are no plans to change the license, this is not a
537 cause for concern.</p>
539 <p>As a contributor to the project, this means that you (or your company) retain
540 ownership of the code you contribute, that it cannot be used in a way that
541 contradicts the license (which is a liberal BSD-style license), and that the
542 license for your contributions won't change without your approval in the
547 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
548 <h3><a name="license">License</a></h3>
550 <p>We intend to keep LLVM perpetually open source and to use a liberal open
551 source license. <b>As a contributor to the project, you agree that any
552 contributions be licensed under the terms of the corresponding
554 All of the code in LLVM is available under the
555 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">University of
556 Illinois/NCSA Open Source License</a>, which boils down to this:</p>
559 <li>You can freely distribute LLVM.</li>
560 <li>You must retain the copyright notice if you redistribute LLVM.</li>
561 <li>Binaries derived from LLVM must reproduce the copyright notice (e.g. in an
562 included readme file).</li>
563 <li>You can't use our names to promote your LLVM derived products.</li>
564 <li>There's no warranty on LLVM at all.</li>
567 <p>We believe this fosters the widest adoption of LLVM because it <b>allows
568 commercial products to be derived from LLVM</b> with few restrictions and
569 without a requirement for making any derived works also open source (i.e.
570 LLVM's license is not a "copyleft" license like the GPL). We suggest that you
571 read the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">License</a>
572 if further clarification is needed.</p>
574 <p>In addition to the UIUC license, the runtime library components of LLVM
575 (<b>compiler_rt, libc++, and libclc</b>) are also licensed under the <a
576 href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT license</a>,
577 which does not contain the binary redistribution clause. As a user of these
578 runtime libraries, it means that you can choose to use the code under either
579 license (and thus don't need the binary redistribution clause), and as a
580 contributor to the code that you agree that any contributions to these
581 libraries be licensed under both licenses. We feel that this is important
582 for runtime libraries, because they are implicitly linked into applications
583 and therefore should not subject those applications to the binary
584 redistribution clause. This also means that it is ok to move code from (e.g.)
585 libc++ to the LLVM core without concern, but that code cannot be moved from
586 the LLVM core to libc++ without the copyright owner's permission.
589 <p>Note that the LLVM Project does distribute llvm-gcc and dragonegg, <b>which
591 This means that anything "linked" into llvm-gcc must itself be compatible
592 with the GPL, and must be releasable under the terms of the GPL. This
593 implies that <b>any code linked into llvm-gcc and distributed to others may
594 be subject to the viral aspects of the GPL</b> (for example, a proprietary
595 code generator linked into llvm-gcc must be made available under the GPL).
596 This is not a problem for code already distributed under a more liberal
597 license (like the UIUC license), and GPL-containing subprojects are kept
598 in separate SVN repositories whose LICENSE.txt files specifically indicate
599 that they contain GPL code.</p>
601 <p>We have no plans to change the license of LLVM. If you have questions or
602 comments about the license, please contact the
603 <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Developer's Mailing List</a>.</p>
606 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
607 <h3><a name="patents">Patents</a></h3>
609 <p>To the best of our knowledge, LLVM does not infringe on any patents (we have
610 actually removed code from LLVM in the past that was found to infringe).
611 Having code in LLVM that infringes on patents would violate an important goal
612 of the project by making it hard or impossible to reuse the code for
613 arbitrary purposes (including commercial use).</p>
615 <p>When contributing code, we expect contributors to notify us of any potential
616 for patent-related trouble with their changes (including from third parties).
617 If you or your employer own
618 the rights to a patent and would like to contribute code to LLVM that relies
619 on it, we require that the copyright owner sign an agreement that allows any
620 other user of LLVM to freely use your patent. Please contact
621 the <a href="mailto:llvm-oversight@cs.uiuc.edu">oversight group</a> for more
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