1 musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
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4 Copyright © 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al.
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69 M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
96 Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
97 under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
99 The TRE regular expression implementation (src/regex/reg* and
100 src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed
101 under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files). The
102 included version has been heavily modified by Rich Felker in 2012, in
103 the interests of size, simplicity, and namespace cleanliness.
105 Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
106 Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
107 Copyright © 2003-2011 David Schultz or
108 Copyright © 2003-2009 Steven G. Kargl or
109 Copyright © 2003-2009 Bruce D. Evans or
110 Copyright © 2008 Stephen L. Moshier
111 and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
112 have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
114 The ARM memcpy code (src/string/arm/memcpy_el.S) is Copyright © 2008
115 The Android Open Source Project and is licensed under a two-clause BSD
116 license. It was taken from Bionic libc, used on Android.
118 The implementation of DES for crypt (src/crypt/crypt_des.c) is
119 Copyright © 1994 David Burren. It is licensed under a BSD license.
121 The implementation of blowfish crypt (src/crypt/crypt_blowfish.c) was
122 originally written by Solar Designer and placed into the public
123 domain. The code also comes with a fallback permissive license for use
124 in jurisdictions that may not recognize the public domain.
126 The smoothsort implementation (src/stdlib/qsort.c) is Copyright © 2011
127 Valentin Ochs and is licensed under an MIT-style license.
129 The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain and is licensed under
130 the standard MIT terms.
132 The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
133 Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
134 by Rich Felker for build system and code conventions during upstream
135 integration. It is licensed under the standard MIT terms.
137 The mips64 port was contributed by Imagination Technologies and is
138 licensed under the standard MIT terms.
140 The powerpc port was also originally written by Richard Pennington,
141 and later supplemented and integrated by John Spencer. It is licensed
142 under the standard MIT terms.
144 All other files which have no copyright comments are original works
145 produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
146 by Rich Felker, the main author of the library, or by one or more
147 contibutors listed above. Details on authorship of individual files
148 can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
149 omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
150 interest of source tree size.
152 In addition, permission is hereby granted for all public header files
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154 applications (crt/*, ldso/dlstart.c, and arch/*/crt_arch.h) to omit
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169 This file previously contained text expressing a belief that most of
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172 negated the permissions granted in the license. In the spirit of
173 permissive licensing, and of not having licensing issues being an
174 obstacle to adoption, that text has been removed.