Authors/contributors include:
+Alex Dowad
+Alexander Monakov
Anthony G. Basile
Arvid Picciani
Bobby Bingham
Brent Cook
Chris Spiegel
Clément Vasseur
+Daniel Micay
+Denys Vlasenko
Emil Renner Berthing
+Felix Fietkau
+Felix Janda
+Gianluca Anzolin
+Hauke Mehrtens
Hiltjo Posthuma
Isaac Dunham
+Jaydeep Patil
Jens Gustedt
Jeremy Huntwork
+Jo-Philipp Wich
+Joakim Sindholt
John Spencer
+Josiah Worcester
Justin Cormack
+Khem Raj
+Kylie McClain
Luca Barbato
Luka Perkov
M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
+Mahesh Bodapati
Michael Forney
+Natanael Copa
Nicholas J. Kain
orc
Pascal Cuoq
+Petr Hosek
Pierre Carrier
Rich Felker
Richard Pennington
+Shiz
sin
Solar Designer
Stefan Kristiansson
Szabolcs Nagy
Timo Teräs
+Trutz Behn
Valentin Ochs
William Haddon
and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
-The ARM memcpy code (src/string/armel/memcpy.s) is Copyright © 2008
+The ARM memcpy code (src/string/arm/memcpy_el.S) is Copyright © 2008
The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
-The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt_des.c) is
+The implementation of DES for crypt (src/crypt/crypt_des.c) is
Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
-The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/misc/crypt_blowfish.c) was
+The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/crypt/crypt_blowfish.c) was
originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
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
by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
+The mips64 port was contributed by Imagination Technologies and is
+licensed under the standard MIT terms.
+
The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
under the standard MIT terms.
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.