mold 1.7.1 is a bug-fix release containing only the following change:

Bug fix

• mold 1.7.0 may generate the same build-id for two different output files. We fixed the issue in 1.7.1 so that build-id is guaranteed to be unique for each different output file. (d8dd12426c1f20c21dfcf5d4021a7c89c88ed727)

Licensing

My comment in the last release notes about a possible license change caused an overwhelming response. Thank you guys for taking care of the software and its ecosystem. We will reconsider our plan based on the feedback. We may still want to change the license of mold/macOS, but we are not going to change the license of mold/Unix at least in a next few releases.

On this occasion, I want to say something. We are not a big evil corp who are trying to squeeze as much money as possible from users. This is mostly a one-person project, and what we are trying to do is to create better tools and make them publicly available to improve programmers' productivity worldwide. If you think of the number of developers who are using compiled languages and how many person-minutes we can save every year with better tools, the sum is a huge saving. We'd like to get a small chunk of it as a return. I believe we are doing good job at creating better tools but struggling to establish a way to get a return from it.

Please keep in mind that there are always people behind an open-source project. Some feedback to my comment were honestly too harsh and disrespectful. Open-source is as much as about people as it is about software. Please respect each other even if you have a different opinion.

By the way, for those who wish to obtain a copy of the mold linker in a different license than AGPL, we finally set up our company web site. You can purchase a license of the "sold" linker (which is a rebranded mold linker) using credit card. Unlike mold, sold is available under a usual per-user, per-month license. We believe this is a good option for some organizations, so please visit our website at bluewhale.systems to check it out.

Acknowledgements

mold is an open-source project, and we accept donations via GitHub Sponsors and OpenCollective. We thank you to everybody who sponsors our project. In particular, we'd like to acknowledge the following organizations and people who have sponsored $32/mo or more during this release cycle:

• Uber Open Source
• Confiared S.R.L.
• Jim Huang
• John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
• kyle-elliott
• Mercury
• Wasmer
• BuildBuddy
• windenntw
• haukevb
• Kurt Mahan
• Thomas Müller
• disktnk
• David Brownlee
• James Le Cuirot
• neoman/titan
• Carsten Strotmann
• Krzysztof Wolf
• Javier Blazquez
• JoJo
• Santiago Pastorino
• Dougall Johnson
• Brett Slatkin