Question about code licensing

[Paolo Bonzini]

>> 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