Why not contribute? (to GCC)

[Marc Glisse]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> This seems to be the question running around the blogosphere for
> several projects. And I would like to ask all people that read this
> list but hardly say or do anything.
>
> What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC?

Not sure we should spam this list even more with such non-technical 
discussions, but since you are asking:

legal reasons. The default disclaimer is nonsense, it is hard to find an 
employer willing to sign a sensible disclaimer, and even when you have a 
nice employer it can still take months (years?) to get things through the 
FSF.

Note that I am not proposing any change. Assignment to the FSF has 
drawbacks, but it also has some advantages. And if things are slow there, 
I am sure they wouldn't mind extra money to hire more people.