On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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? > > That web page is everything that there is. I am aware that this is not as > legally air-tight as the FSF disclaimer, but empirically many companies seem > to have no problem with it. >
Can't resist. So in theory, someone can sue LLVM and win. If it is the case, I may not want to use LLVM as my system compiler. -- H.J.
