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title: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
spdx-id: NCSA
nickname: UIUC/NCSA

description: The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC license, is a permissive free software license, based on the <a href="/licenses/mit/">MIT/X11 license</a>  and the <a href="/licenses/bsd-3-clause/">BSD 3-clause License</a>. Its conditions include requiring the preservation of copyright and license notices both in source and in binary distributions and the prohibition of using the names of the authors or the project organization to promote or endorse derived products.

how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [year] with the current year and [fullname] with the name (or names) of the copyright holders. Replace [project] with the project organization, if any, that sponsors this work.

using: 
 - LLDB: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
 - ROCR-Runtime: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCR-Runtime/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
 - RLTK: https://github.com/chriswailes/RLTK/blob/master/LICENSE

permissions:
  - commercial-use
  - modifications
  - distribution
  - private-use

conditions:
  - include-copyright

limitations:
  - liability
  - warranty

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University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License 

Copyright (c) [year] [fullname]. All rights reserved. 

Developed by: [project] 
              [fullname] 
              [projecturl]
                  
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files 
(the "Software"), to deal with 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:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, 
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the 
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the names of [fullname], [project] nor the names of its 
  contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
  this Software without specific prior written permission.
  
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 
CONTRIBUTORS 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 WITH
THE SOFTWARE.