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. Cheers, Manuel.