emscripten-core / emscripten-core/emscripten

libunwind CREDITS.TXT is missing - and arguably required to comply with its license

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The file `system/lib/libunwind/LICENSE.TXT` offers two licenses, one of them (NCSA) among other things requiring that...
> Neither the names of the LLVM Team, University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign, nor the names of its contributors may be used to
> endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific
> prior written permission.

The copyright holders are in same file documented as being "the contributors listed in CREDITS.TXT".

Issue is that the referenced file `CREDITS.TXT` seems missing from source.

How can I be sure to not violate the requirement of the license when I am not told whom I shall avoid to endorse (other than not endorsing *anyone* on planet Earth)?

Please revive the referenced file `CREDITS.TXT` both to ease compliance with the offered license, and (also for those who don't care about that NCSA license) to honor those fine people who chose to contribute some of the underpinnings of _this_ nice work.

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