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-<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>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>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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