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llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst

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@@ -1154,13 +1154,16 @@ acceptable for their contributions. We feel that a high burden for relicensing
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is good for the project, because contributors do not have to fear that their
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code will be used in a way with which they disagree.
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Embedded Copyright Statements
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Embedded Copyright or 'Contributed by' Statements
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The LLVM project does not accept contributions that include in-source copyright
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notices except where such notices are part of a larger external project being
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added as a vendored dependency.
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LLVM source code lives for a long time and is edited by many people, the best
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way to track contributions is through revision control history.
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Relicensing
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