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Re: [PATCH v3 1/14] D: The front-end (DMD) language implementation and license.
On 10/18/2017 01:33 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 6 October 2017 at 14:51, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@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