Re: Upstream clang compiler plugins, licensing

On 10/10/2018 10:53 PM, Tamás Zolnai wrote:
> With this new information I agree that it would be the best to clear the 
> licensing and use LLVM in every source file under compilerplugins 
> folder. So the question is what is the best way to do that. What is the 
> best way to ask every authors for a permission to relicense the code? Do 
> we need some kind of short license statement from the authors, similar 
> the general LO license statement?

I am not sure that having a subdirectory under core which is licensed 
differently from the rest of the code is good. I imagine a situation 
when one would need a license statement like

   "All of my past & future contributions to LibreOffice may be
    licensed under the MPLv2/LGPLv3+ dual license.

    All my contributions to directory foo may be licensed under the bar
    license.

    All my contributions to directory bar may be licensed ..."

which would become a nightmare. I suppose that if a separate-licensed 
thing is required, then just create a dedicated project, which would be 
external dependency for LibreOffice. Of course, you'd need to get the 
license statements for the existing code (as you discussed).

-- 
Best regards,
Mike Kaganski