Copyright assignment for Rust-GCC

Nala Ginrut mulei@gnu.org
Tue Jan 5 16:24:57 GMT 2021


Thanks for all the replies, I've contacted assign@gnu.org but no reply
for 2 days.
Should I get the form from GCC folks?

Best regards.


Eric Gallager writes:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:13 AM David Edelsohn via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:29 AM Nala Ginrut via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Folks!
>> > This mail is about the development of Rust frontend of GCC.
>> >
>> > To avoid misunderstanding, please let me introduce Rust-GCC briefly.
>> > In 2013, Philip Herron had announced the project in GCC mailing-list:
>> > https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00017.html
>> > In 2019, @SimplyTheOther had contributed the almost complete parser and
>> > AST.
>> > And I helped to do some trivial work to make it work with the latest GCC
>> > at that time.
>> > Of course there are more contributors that I can't mention one by one.
>> > At that time, a small community of Rust-GCC had formed. We're interested
>> > in continuing it till it can be merged into GCC.
>> > https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
>> > So this is the brief history.
>> >
>> > Now we have a question, when should we assign copyright paper for GNU?
>> > Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper
>> > mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recognized by GCC
>> > community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > Comments are welcome.
>>
>> As Jeff wrote, the assignment is for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
>> project, not for specific languages.  One does /not/ submit separate
>> assignments for GNU Fortran, GNU C++, GNU Go, GNU Ada, GNU Modula2,
>> etc.
>>
>>
> Speaking of Modula2, has that frontend made it into mainline GCC yet? I see
> there was a bugzilla component for it added, but I don't remember seeing
> anything about it in the changes.html file for any existing releases...
>
>
>> Please have all of the developers start the FSF copyright assignment
>> process now.
>>
>> Thanks, David
>>


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