citing clang?

Clang Frontend
1

I need to reference clang in a paper; anyone know of a better way than this?

@misc{Clang:URL,
   author = "{Apple, Inc.}",
   title = "clang: a {C} language family frontend for {LLVM}",
   note = "{\url{http://clang.llvm.org/\}} ; accessed 21-Sept-2011",
}

Thanks,

John

2

It's inappropriate to cite clang as Apple-authored; it's an open source project which Apple puts resources into, just like the Linux kernel is an open source project which other companies put resources into.

This is just a citation for a general reference, rather than a specific quote from the source code and/or website? I would just leave out the author entirely.

John.

3

According to [1], copyright holder is the University of Illinois.

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp

4

Thanks Konstantin and John.

Yes, just a generic citation since Clang isn't quite a household word yet :).

John

5

How do you draw that conclusion? "project is held by its respective contributors". Only the clang code contributed by UIUC is copyright UIUC.

-Chris

6

Presumably from the bit at the top that says "the University of
Illinois is the LLVM copyright holder" :slight_smile:

Jay.

7

Wow, how about that. Fixed in r140326. Thanks,

-Chris