Why not contribute? (to GCC)

[Basile Starynkevitch]

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.

The real issue is not the copyright disclaimer, it is the legal terms 
inside. Maybe U.Illinois don't use words like "unlumited liaibility".

But we cannot know for sure, these documents are not public.

Cheers.


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