On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:29 AM Nala Ginrut via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi Folks! > This mail is about the development of Rust frontend of GCC. > > To avoid misunderstanding, please let me introduce Rust-GCC briefly. > In 2013, Philip Herron had announced the project in GCC mailing-list: > https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00017.html > In 2019, @SimplyTheOther had contributed the almost complete parser and > AST. > And I helped to do some trivial work to make it work with the latest GCC > at that time. > Of course there are more contributors that I can't mention one by one. > At that time, a small community of Rust-GCC had formed. We're interested > in continuing it till it can be merged into GCC. > https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs > So this is the brief history. > > Now we have a question, when should we assign copyright paper for GNU? > Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper > mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recognized by GCC > community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this > issue. > > Comments are welcome.
As Jeff wrote, the assignment is for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) project, not for specific languages. One does /not/ submit separate assignments for GNU Fortran, GNU C++, GNU Go, GNU Ada, GNU Modula2, etc. Please have all of the developers start the FSF copyright assignment process now. Thanks, David
