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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
On 25 April 2010 16:55, Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
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>> On 25 April 2010 06:20, Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
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>>>> 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
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> 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.
So, is the copyright disclaimer implicit in the patch submission? Who
defines the conditions?
Cheers,
Manuel.