Walter Bright, el 23 de enero a las 16:15 me escribiste: > Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >Walter Bright, el 23 de enero a las 12:54 me escribiste: > >>Jerry Quinn wrote: > >>>Walter Bright Wrote: > >>>>Will they take a fork of the dmd source, such that they own the > >>>>copyright to the fork and Digital Mars still has copyright to > >>>>the original? > >>>Hi, Walter, > >>> > >>>The answer appears to be yes: > >>> > >>>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00430.html > >>> > >>>Jerry > >>> > >>That's great news. I suppose I should look over the forms they talk about! > > > >Great news indeed! Since DMD FE is GPL I think it won't be any trouble to > >fold in the new changes back to GDC as they did (and LDC too), so it won't > >be really a *fork*, right? > > Well, still I won't be supporting gdc directly. It would mean a team > that would be willing to take new DMD FE updates and fold them into > GDC, and then follow whatever gcc's build and release conventions > are.
Yes, what I meant is that the new DMD FE fork (owned by the FSF) will be allowed to fold in changes in the original DMD FE (owned by DM). I hope that can be done, to avoid duplicating a lot of effort fixing bugs in the DMD FE (or even implementing new features). > >Walter, please, please, please let us know how this progresses. Thanks! > > Who in the FSF is a contact person about this? >From http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html """ Legal Prerequisites Before we can incorporate significant contributions, certain legal requirements must be met. The FSF prefers that a contributor files a copyright assignment for large contributions. See some documentation by the FSF for details and contact us (either via the [email protected] list or the GCC maintainer that is taking care of your contributions) to obtain the relevant forms. The most common forms are an assignment for a specific change, an assignment for all future changes, and an employer disclaimer, if an employer or school owns work created by the developer. It's a good idea to send [email protected] a copy of your request. If a contributor is reluctant to sign a copyright assignment for a change, a copyright disclaimer to put the change in the public domain is acceptable as well. The copyright disclaimer form is different than an employer disclaimer form. A copyright assignment is more convenient if a contributor plans to make several separate contributions. [...] """ More here: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legal-Matters Thanks! -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
