On 25 April 2010 16:55, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > > 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.
So, is the copyright disclaimer implicit in the patch submission? Who defines the conditions? Cheers, Manuel.