On Apr 23, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> On 24 April 2010 00:18, Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@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.
I'm not sure why you think that. Unlike the FSF, all of the LLVM projects' requirements are public: http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html LLVM does not require a copyright assignment. People can send in random patches and they get immediately applied. -Chris
