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temporarily revert developer policy change as a courtesy to vikram.

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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>For consistency and ease of management, the project requires the copyright
for all LLVM software to be held by a single copyright holder: the University
of Illinois (UIUC).</p>
<p>Although UIUC may eventually reassign the copyright of the software to
another entity (e.g. a dedicated non-profit "LLVM Organization") the intent
for the project is to always have a single entity hold the copyrights to LLVM
at any given time.</p>
<p>The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the
copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors
who have each agreed to release their contributed code under the terms of the
<a href="#license">LLVM License</a>.</p>
<p>An implication of this is that the LLVM license is unlikely to ever change:
changing it would require tracking down all the contributors to LLVM and
getting them to agree that a license change is acceptable for their
contribution. Since there are no plans to change the license, this is not a
cause for concern.</p>
<p>As a contributor to the project, this means that you (or your company) retain
ownership of the code you contribute, that it cannot be used in a way that
contradicts the license (which is a liberal BSD-style license), and that the
license for your contributions won't change without your approval in the
future.</p>
<p>We believe that having a single copyright holder is in the best interests of
all developers and users as it greatly reduces the managerial burden for any
kind of administrative or technical decisions about LLVM. The goal of the
LLVM project is to always keep the code open and <a href="#license">licensed
under a very liberal license</a>.</p>
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