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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 25 April 2010 06:20, Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 April 2010 00:18, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The disclaimers are legally necessary though, the FSF needs a paper
>>>> trail in the case your employer comes back and claims that they have
>>>> copyright over a change.
>>>
>>> BTW, in this aspect there is no difference between GCC and LLVM. The
>>> latter also requires to assign copyright to the University of
>>> Illinois. If you don't have a copyright disclaimer before contributing
>>> to LLVM, you are exposing yourself to some future legal troubles.
>>
>> On what do you base these assertions? Every point seems wrong to me.
>
> Quoting from the link: http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
The key distinction is that contributing to LLVM does not require you to sign a form (which isn't even publicly available) and mail it in to a busy and high-latency organization before non-trivial patches will be accepted.
-Chris