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Sep 28, 2015 at 21:45
GCC is a healthy project with a growing number of contributors, but LLVM had more contributors in 2014: http://t.co/oT87OQuPtg

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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 [...]