-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:
-See below for the copyright status on all code included in musl:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright © 2005-2014 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
+"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:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Authors/contributors include:
+
+Alex Dowad
+Alexander Monakov
+Anthony G. Basile
+Arvid Picciani
+Bobby Bingham
+Boris Brezillon
+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
+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)
+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
+
+Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
+under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
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.
+
+Much of the math library code (src/math/* and src/complex/*) is
+Copyright © 1993,2004 Sun Microsystems or
+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
+and labelled as such in comments in the individual source files. All
+have been licensed under extremely permissive terms.
-Most of the math library code (src/math/*) is Copyright © 1993 Sun
-Microsystems, Inc. Some files are Copyright © 2003 Steven G. Kargl 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.
+The ARM memcpy code (src/string/armel/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 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 DES for crypt (src/misc/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
+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.
-
-All files which have no copyright comments are original works
-Copyright © 2005-2012 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.
-
-The following files are trivial, in my opinion not copyrightable in
+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 other files which have no copyright comments are original works
+produced specifically for use as part of this library, written either
+by Rich Felker, the main author of the library, or by one or more
+contibutors listed above. Details on authorship of individual files
+can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
+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.
+
+The following files are trivial, believed not to be 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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