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D.gnu - Merging with GCC

reply "Rohan" <rohandot gmail.com> writes:
Is there any plan to merge GDC with GCC? I think that it would be helpful 
for both projects.
I writed in GCC mailing-list and asked about it, and they answered that thay 
do not see any problems why it should not be done.
May 21 2008
next sibling parent reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Rohan wrote:

 Is there any plan to merge GDC with GCC? I think that it would be 
 helpful for both projects.
 I writed in GCC mailing-list and asked about it, and they answered that 
 thay do not see any problems why it should not be done.
 


What I heard was that the FSF requires that it be the owner of the 
copyright on all official GCC languages.  GDC uses Walter's front end, 
and Walter does not want to give the copyright of that to the FSF.  It 
is under a very liberal license, but apparently that was not good enough 
for the FSF, they want to own the copyright too.  But then that means 
they could do something like turn around and tell Walter he has to stop 
distributing the code under the Artistic license and use only GPL.

But maybe the GCC folks have changed their tune on the transfer of 
copyright issue since someone last checked?

--bb
May 21 2008
parent reply "Rohan" <rohandot gmail.com> writes:
 But maybe the GCC folks have changed their tune on the transfer of 
 copyright issue since someone last checked?


I asked GCC folks about it and here they answer:
"Nope, that is pretty much a GCC requirement."
May 22 2008
parent "Anders Bergh" <anders1 gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Rohan <rohandot gmail.com> wrote:

 But maybe the GCC folks have changed their tune on the transfer of
 copyright issue since someone last checked?


 I asked GCC folks about it and here they answer:
 "Nope, that is pretty much a GCC requirement."


Didn't they make an exception for the Eclipse Java compiler?
May 23 2008
prev sibling parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pablo_Ripoll=e9s?= <in-call gmx.net> writes:
Rohan Wrote:


 But maybe the GCC folks have changed their tune on the transfer of 
 copyright issue since someone last checked?


 
 I asked GCC folks about it and here they answer:
 "Nope, that is pretty much a GCC requirement."


and what about gfotran?
May 29 2008
parent Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
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On Thu, 29 May 2008, Pablo Ripoll=E9s wrote:


 Rohan Wrote:
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 But maybe the GCC folks have changed their tune on the transfer of=20
 copyright issue since someone last checked?


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 I asked GCC folks about it and here they answer:
 "Nope, that is pretty much a GCC requirement."


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 and what about gfotran?


What about it?  It's copyright is owned by the FSF.  From:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgfortran/libgfortran.h?revision=3DH=
EAD&view=3Dmarkup

=3D=3D=3D=3D snip =3D=3D=3D=3D
/* Common declarations for all of libgfortran.
   Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   Contributed by Paul Brook <paul nowt.org>, and
   Andy Vaught <andy xena.eas.asu.edu>
=3D=3D=3D=3D

Later,
Brad


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