On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > On 25 April 2010 06:20, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:35 PM, 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. >> >> On what do you base these assertions? Every point seems wrong to me. > > Quoting from the link: http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html
The key distinction is that contributing to LLVM does not require you to sign a form (which isn't even publicly available) and mail it in to a busy and high-latency organization before non-trivial patches will be accepted. -Chris
