On 06/08/2010 00:43, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 5 de agosto a las 13:34 me escribiste:
mwarning wrote:
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:23:25 +0000, BCS wrote:
For a number of IP/legal reasons, Walter CAN'T work on LLVM or LDC.
can you please elaborate a bit?
I remember that statement has appeared before,
but I can't remember the reason that was given.
Because when I've had the roomful of lawyers do their due diligence
on me, saying "I never looked at the source code" is an effective
defense against any claims of possible infringement. When I say
that, they click their briefcases shut, say "we're done here", and
leave.
That seems a little stupid, there are billions of open source projects,
and I never hear anyone giving that excuse not to contribute.
Your argument about having to convince people that a feature have
merits or the bigger inertia to do changes is a valid one, but that one
is just bogus.
Also, quite a lot of those billion open source projects have
commercial-friendly licenses (BSD, Boost, Apache licence, Eclipse Pubic
License, etc.), so naturally their contributors do not have all these
worries of taint.
I find myself wishing some more OSS projects had commercial-friendly
licenses. :-/ In particular LLVM, as I do agree it might have been great
if Walter were able to work with it without these IP worries.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
