Re: [PATCH v3 1/14] D: The front-end (DMD) language implementation and license.

[Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject dot org>]

On 25 October 2017 at 03:06, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>

OK, I'll cc in Donald.

Walter/Andrei, the ball may be in your court here if there's any
copyright problems.

Regards
Iain.