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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> So, is the copyright disclaimer implicit in the patch submission? Who
>> defines the conditions?
>
> That web page is everything that there is. ?I am aware that this is not as legally air-tight as the FSF disclaimer, but empirically many companies seem to have no problem with it.
>
Can't resist. So in theory, someone can sue LLVM and win. If it is the
case, I may
not want to use LLVM as my system compiler.
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H.J.