From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:13:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add strong words about patents
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b87fb2aabc289a36c579c0284b537c4b7b2b5e6a;p=oota-llvm.git

add strong words about patents


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@34409 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
index 9bc6446a124..753dbf7ce5d 100644
--- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
+++ b/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>