Authors/contributors include:
+A. Wilcox
Alex Dowad
Alexander Monakov
+Andrew Kelley
Anthony G. Basile
Arvid Picciani
+Bartosz Brachaczek
Bobby Bingham
Boris Brezillon
Brent Cook
Chris Spiegel
Clément Vasseur
Daniel Micay
+Daniel Sabogal
+Daurnimator
+David Edelsohn
Denys Vlasenko
+Dmitry Ivanov
+Dmitry V. Levin
Emil Renner Berthing
Felix Fietkau
Felix Janda
Gianluca Anzolin
Hauke Mehrtens
+He X
Hiltjo Posthuma
Isaac Dunham
Jaydeep Patil
Joakim Sindholt
John Spencer
Josiah Worcester
+Julien Ramseier
Justin Cormack
Khem Raj
Kylie McClain
+Leah Neukirchen
Luca Barbato
Luka Perkov
M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
Mahesh Bodapati
+Masanori Ogino
Michael Forney
+Mikhail Kremnyov
Natanael Copa
Nicholas J. Kain
orc
Pascal Cuoq
Petr Hosek
+Petr Skocik
Pierre Carrier
+Reini Urban
Rich Felker
Richard Pennington
+Samuel Holland
Shiz
sin
Solar Designer
Trutz Behn
Valentin Ochs
William Haddon
+William Pitcock
Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
-The BSD PRNG implementation (src/prng/random.c) and XSI search API
-(src/search/*.c) functions are Copyright © 2011 Szabolcs Nagy and
-licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
-and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
-hereby granted. There is no warranty."
-
-The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. Several files (crt)
-were released into the public domain; others are licensed under the
-standard MIT license terms at the top of this file. See individual
-files for their copyright status.
+The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain and is licensed under
+the standard MIT terms.
The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
interest of source tree size.
-All public header files (include/* and arch/*/bits/*) should be
-treated as Public Domain as they intentionally contain no content
-which can be covered by copyright. Some source modules may fall in
-this category as well. If you believe that a file is so trivial that
-it should be in the Public Domain, please contact the authors and
-request an explicit statement releasing it from copyright.
+In addition, permission is hereby granted for all public header files
+(include/* and arch/*/bits/*) and crt files intended to be linked into
+applications (crt/*, ldso/dlstart.c, and arch/*/crt_arch.h) to omit
+the copyright notice and permission notice otherwise required by the
+license, and to use these files without any requirement of
+attribution. These files include substantial contributions from:
+
+Bobby Bingham
+John Spencer
+Nicholas J. Kain
+Rich Felker
+Richard Pennington
+Stefan Kristiansson
+Szabolcs Nagy
-The following files are trivial, believed not to be copyrightable in
-the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
+all of whom have explicitly granted such permission.
-All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
-Startup files: crt/*
+This file previously contained text expressing a belief that most of
+the files covered by the above exception were sufficiently trivial not
+to be subject to copyright, resulting in confusion over whether it
+negated the permissions granted in the license. In the spirit of
+permissive licensing, and of not having licensing issues being an
+obstacle to adoption, that text has been removed.