On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:08:02PM -0700, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:35:26PM -0700, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >> On 24 April 2010 00:18, Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@gnu.org> wrote: > >>> The disclaimers are legally necessary though, [...] > > > > The main difficulties I've experienced haven't been with the copyright > > assignment itself, but the issues surrounding patents in the default > > disclaimer language (though I understand that the FSF has negotiated other > > language with a number of corporate contributors). > > Yes yes yes! > > Thanks for the clarification!
But we aren't saying the same thing: you seem to think that people are opening themselves up to unlimited liability by contributing, and the issue I encountered was over the generality of the promise not to sue over any future GCC version even if new capabilities are added.
