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Nov 17, 2014 at 19:09
I'm going through the process of copyright assignment to the FSF. It's a little tedious but I want to hack on core!

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Jun 17, 2021 at 02:48
glibc and gnulib are looking at removing the requirement for FSF copyright assignment, following gcc:
Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation
Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation
: Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement
Jun 2, 2021 at 05:15
GCC will no longer require copyright assignment to the FSF! https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/ It's definitely a hurdle (I've done the paperwork in several jobs) so this should really help new/casual contributors.
GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement
The GCC compiler, like other GNU projects, has long required contributors to complete paperwork [...]
May 22, 2019 at 21:52
I've started reading Construction of Thinned Gated Single-Assignment Form by Paul Havlak, because I hear this SSA form is way underrated. It uses a crazy archaic 3-way IF from Fortran as a motivating example: IF (I) 10, 20, 30 This goes to 10/20/30 based on i being +ve/-ve/0!