On 26 April 2010 07:06, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > > I find it amusing the willingness of various developers to debate the > veracity of the LLVM policies, but the simulataneous (apparent) unwillingness > to address GCC's (perceived) problems. Why not spend your time helping > improve the documentation, increase modularity, or improve the copyright > assignment process, rather than participate so much in this thread? >
Well, I agree that the discussion is going a bit off-topic. As it commonly happens when the legal issues are raised. But it has been raised that it is easier to contribute to LLVM than to GCC because the former does not require a copyright assignment/disclaimer. The question then is whether the copyright assignment/disclaimer is needed at all, or its benefits outweighs its costs. It is a pointless discussion for GCC because the FSF strongly feels that it is necessary. I guess you have noticed that I am not in the LLVM mailing list raising this "uncomfortable" questions. In fact, I agree that those are (real, not perceived) problems in GCC. But to address those problems we need more help. And I feel the feedback from would-be-contributors has been interesting, but we probably are not going to get anything more useful from this thread. Can I close it? > On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> Are you 100% sure that the fact that LLVM does not ask for your >> employer disclaimer means that you do not need to ask your employer >> for some paper to legally contribute code? Are you sure you are not >> exposing yourself to a legal risk? > > This is such an incredibly immense scoop of FUD that I couldn't help but > respond to it :-) Isn't this thread supposed to be about finding ways to > improve GCC? From the things we have heard in this thread, this is a pretty sensible question. Is the answer yes or no? You could actually ask the lawyers of the U. of Illinois. But yes, until I start contributing to LLVM (which may happen someday, there is nothing wrong with it) I don't care much, that is, unless someone raises again the point that it is easier to contribute to LLVM because they don't ask for a copyright disclaimer. If you get an answer, I am honestly interested. :-) Manuel.
