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Re: Question about code licensing



Strictly speaking, that's not true.  Even if the submitter would still
be required to have copyright assignment for the FSF, they could be
copyable to the DMD front-end _as long as the submitter himself sends
them for inclusion there too_.  This is the practical significance of
the license grantback from the FSF to the author.

This is getting off-topic for this list. Still, if this were the plan (and I don't know whether it is or not), I think that the FSF would reject it, because it would implicitly ask all GCC developers to help out with a proprietary product.

Yes, this is what I meant by the FSF not liking it.


There would also be a huge conflict-of-interest issue if the official
maintainer of the D front end were in a position to accept or reject
patches based not on their technical merit, but on whether the contributor
agrees to separately contribute them under the dual-license scheme, and
his/her employer had an interest in this issue.

This only makes it worse.


Paolo


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