Re: Merging gdc (Gnu D Compiler) into gcc

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:36:08AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > The D specific part of gdc is already GPL, it's just copyrighted by
> > Digital Mars. I understand the copyright must be reassigned to the FSF.
> > Is it possible to fork the code, and assign copyright of one fork to the
> > FSF and leave the other copyrighted by Digital Mars?
> 
> The FSF generally allows a grant-back: that is, you assign your code
> to the FSF, which immediately grants you an unlimited licence to do
> whatever you want with it.

Just note that if you'll want to merge back from the FSF tree back to your
forked tree any changes made there by others, those changes will already be
copyrighted by the FSF and not Digital Mars.

	Jakub