On 13 November 2017 at 00:20, Andrei Alexandrescu <and...@erdani.com> wrote: > On 11/06/2017 01:46 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 25 October 2017 at 03:06, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/18/2017 01:33 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >>>> >>>> On 6 October 2017 at 14:51, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@gdcproject.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Out of curiosity, I did have a look at some of the tops of gofrontend >>>>>> sources this morning. They are all copyright the Go Authors, and are >>>>>> licensed as BSD. So I'm not sure if having copyright FSF and >>>>>> distributing under GPL is strictly required. And from a maintenance >>>>>> point of view, it would be easier to merge in upstream changes as-is >>>>>> without some diff/merging tool. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The GCC steering committee accepted the gofrontend code under a >>>>> non-GPL license with the understanding that the master code would live >>>>> in a separate repository that would be mirrored into the GCC repo (the >>>>> master repository for gofrontend is currently at >>>>> https://go.googlesource.com/gofrontend/). Personally I don't see a >>>>> problem with doing the same for the D frontend. >>>>> >>>>> Ian >>>> >>>> >>>> Should I request that maybe Donald from FSF chime in here? I'd rather >>>> avoid another stalemate on this. >>> >>> Absolutely, though RMS should probably be included on any discussion >>> with Donald. I think the FSF needs to chime in and I think the steering >>> committee needs to chime in once we've got guidance from the FSF. >>> >>> The first and most important question that needs to be answered is >>> whether or not the FSF would be OK including the DMD bits with the >>> license (boost) as-is into GCC. >>> >>> If that's not acceptable, then we'd have to look at some kind of script >>> to fix the copyrights. >>> Jeff >>> >> >> Assuming then, that we'll ship with all copyright notices amended to >> be copyright FSF and GPL licensed - that can be fixed up in a later >> patch - is there anything further needed to push this review process >> further? >> >> Iain. > > > Hi Jeff, Ian, Joseph: thanks for your consideration. Is there anything we > can do on our side to move things forward? Please advise, thanks! > > Andrei >
Ping? I was recently made aware that upstream DMD has a pending patch to switch copyright ownership of all its sources to "The D Language Foundation", however it now seems blocked pending on the outcome here. Iain.
