Revision b0ef6fc6fff067f6daa937d9b36a7879e6ea4b61 authored by Jameson Nash on 02 January 2018, 17:29:04 UTC, committed by Jameson Nash on 02 January 2018, 17:29:06 UTC
A GitHub link is not necessarily the most stable reference,
and also appears to only list the top 100.
The updated text is intended to make it clear that this lists may not
be fully accurate (as JuliaLang does not have full control over it),
and inform the user of an alternate method of listing the JuliaLang
authorship history through git.
1 parent 2cc82d2
Raw File
LICENSE.md
The Julia language is licensed under the MIT License. The "language" consists
of the compiler (the contents of src/), most of the standard library (base/),
and some utilities (most of the rest of the files in this repository). See below
for exceptions.

> Copyright (c) 2009-2018: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah,
> and other contributors.
> A list of contributors may be found at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/contributors
> or by running `git shortlog -s` on this git repository commit history.
>
> 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 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Julia includes code from the following projects, which have their own licenses:

- [crc32c.c](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17645167/implementing-sse-4-2s-crc32c-in-software) (CRC-32c checksum code by Mark Adler) [[ZLib](https://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib)].
- [LDC](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/LICENSE) (for ccall/cfunction ABI definitions) [BSD-3]. The portion of code that Julia uses from LDC is [BSD-3] licensed.
- [LLVM](http://releases.llvm.org/3.9.0/LICENSE.TXT) (for parts of src/jitlayers.cpp and src/disasm.cpp) [BSD-3, effectively]
- [MUSL](http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/COPYRIGHT) (for getopt implementation on Windows) [MIT]
- [MINGW](https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-org-wsl/ci/legacy/tree/mingwrt/mingwex/dirname.c) (for dirname implementation on Windows) [MIT]
- [NetBSD](http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html) (for setjmp, longjmp, and strptime implementations on Windows) [BSD-3]
- [Python](https://docs.python.org/2/license.html) (for strtod implementation on Windows) [BSD-3, effectively]
- [randmtzig.c](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/test/perf/micro/randmtzig.c) for Gaussian random number generation (for C benchmarks only) [BSD-3]

The Julia language links to the following external libraries, which have their
own licenses:

- [FEMTOLISP](https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp) [BSD-3]
- [LIBUNWIND](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE;hb=master) [MIT]
- [LIBUV](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/blob/master/LICENSE) [MIT]
- [LLVM](http://releases.llvm.org/3.9.0/LICENSE.TXT) [BSD-3, effectively]
- [UTF8PROC](https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc) [MIT]


Julia's standard library uses the following external libraries, which have
their own licenses:

- [ARPACK](http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.txt#LICENSE) [BSD-3]
- [DSFMT](http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
- [OPENLIBM](https://github.com/JuliaLang/openlibm/blob/master/LICENSE.md) [MIT, BSD-2, ISC]
- [GMP](http://gmplib.org/manual/Copying.html#Copying) [LGPL3+ or GPL2+]
- [LIBGIT2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/COPYING) [GPL2+ with unlimited linking exception]
- [CURL](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html) [MIT/X derivative]
- [LIBSSH2](https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/blob/master/COPYING) [BSD-3]
- [MBEDTLS](https://tls.mbed.org/how-to-get) [either GPLv2 or Apache 2.0]
- [MPFR](http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Copying) [LGPL3+]
- [OPENBLAS](https://raw.github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/master/LICENSE) [BSD-3]
- [LAPACK](http://netlib.org/lapack/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
- [PCRE](http://www.pcre.org/licence.txt) [BSD-3]
- [SUITESPARSE](http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html) [mix of LGPL2+ and GPL2+; see individual module licenses]


The following components of Julia's standard library have separate licenses:

- base/grisu/* (see [double-conversion](https://github.com/google/double-conversion/blob/master/LICENSE))
- base/sparse/umfpack.jl (see [SUITESPARSE](http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html))
- base/sparse/cholmod.jl (see [SUITESPARSE](http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html))
- base/special/exp.jl (see [FDLIBM](http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/e_exp.c) [Freely distributable with preserved copyright notice])
- base/special/rem_pio2.jl (see [FDLIBM](http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/e_rem_pio2.c) [Freely distributable with preserved copyright notice])


Julia's build process uses the following external tools:

- [PATCHELF](http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1524660/download/1/README)
- [OBJCONV](http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv)


Julia bundles the following external programs and libraries on some platforms:

- [7-Zip](http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt)
- [BUSYBOX](https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32/blob/master/LICENSE)
- [ZLIB](http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html)
- [LIBEXPAT](http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/README)

On some platforms, distributions of Julia contain SSL certificate authority certificates,
released under the [Mozilla Public License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License).
back to top