-musl as a whole is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later.
-See the file COPYING for the text of this license.
+musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
+
+Copyright © 2005-2013 Rich Felker
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
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+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+
+Portions of this software are contributed or derived from software
+authored by third parties. Complete details on the copyright status of
+all code included in musl follows below:
-See below for the copyright status on all code included in musl:
The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
-src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2006 Ville Laurikari and licensed
-under the terms of the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. The included
-version was heavily modified in Spring 2006 by Rich Felker in the
-interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
+src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
+under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
+included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
+the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
Most of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
and labelled as such. All have been licensed under extremely
-permissive terms which are compatible with the GNU LGPL. See the
-comments in the individual files for details.
+permissive terms. See the comments in the individual files for
+details.
+
+The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt_des.c) is
+Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
-The implementation of DES for crypt (src/misc/crypt.c) is Copyright ©
-1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license compatible with
-the GNU LGPL.
+The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/misc/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.
The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
-Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license compatible
-with the GNU LGPL.
+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
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. See individual files
-for their copyright status.
+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 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 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.
-All files which have no copyright comments are original works
-Copyright © 2005-2012 Rich Felker, the main author of this library.
+All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
+Copyright © 2005-2013 Rich Felker, the main author of this library.
The decision to exclude such comments is intentional, as it should be
possible to carry around the complete source code on tiny storage
-media. All public header files (include/*) 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 me and, if I agree, I will explicitly
-release it from copyright.
+media. 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 me and, if I agree,
+I will explicitly release it from copyright.
The following files are trivial, in my opinion not copyrightable in
the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
-All public headers: include/*
+All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
Startup files: crt/*
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