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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
> On the other hand, when the assignment is implicit like for LLVM, I
> really don't know. You need to ask your own lawyer (not the ones from
> Apple or from the U. of Illinois).
I don't believe there IS such a thing as an "implicit assignment".
You either signed a contract that assigns the copyright or you
haven't. If an employee of some large company (say, Microsoft) writes
a patch for LLVM and submits it, what in the world would bind
Microsoft to having given up their copyright interest in that patch?
Certainly not some statement buried someplace in a web site.