musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
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-Copyright © 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al.
+Copyright © 2005-2020 Rich Felker, et al.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
Authors/contributors include:
+A. Wilcox
+Ada Worcester
Alex Dowad
+Alex Suykov
Alexander Monakov
+Andre McCurdy
+Andrew Kelley
Anthony G. Basile
+Aric Belsito
Arvid Picciani
+Bartosz Brachaczek
+Benjamin Peterson
Bobby Bingham
Boris Brezillon
Brent Cook
Chris Spiegel
Clément Vasseur
Daniel Micay
+Daniel Sabogal
+Daurnimator
+David Carlier
+David Edelsohn
Denys Vlasenko
+Dmitry Ivanov
+Dmitry V. Levin
+Drew DeVault
Emil Renner Berthing
+Fangrui Song
Felix Fietkau
Felix Janda
Gianluca Anzolin
Hauke Mehrtens
+He X
Hiltjo Posthuma
Isaac Dunham
Jaydeep Patil
Jo-Philipp Wich
Joakim Sindholt
John Spencer
-Josiah Worcester
+Julien Ramseier
Justin Cormack
+Kaarle Ritvanen
Khem Raj
Kylie McClain
+Leah Neukirchen
Luca Barbato
Luka Perkov
M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
Mahesh Bodapati
+Markus Wichmann
+Masanori Ogino
+Michael Clark
Michael Forney
+Mikhail Kremnyov
Natanael Copa
Nicholas J. Kain
orc
Pascal Cuoq
+Patrick Oppenlander
Petr Hosek
+Petr Skocik
Pierre Carrier
+Reini Urban
Rich Felker
Richard Pennington
+Ryan Fairfax
+Samuel Holland
+Segev Finer
Shiz
sin
Solar Designer
Stefan Kristiansson
+Stefan O'Rear
Szabolcs Nagy
Timo Teräs
Trutz Behn
Valentin Ochs
+Will Dietz
William Haddon
+William Pitcock
Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
-Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
+Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier or
+Copyright © 2017-2018 Arm Limited
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/arm/memcpy_el.S) is Copyright © 2008
+The ARM memcpy code (src/string/arm/memcpy.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 AArch64 memcpy and memset code (src/string/aarch64/*) are
+Copyright © 1999-2019, Arm Limited.
+
The implementation of DES for crypt (src/crypt/crypt_des.c) is
Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD 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.
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