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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
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.
-Chris