Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:28:33 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2010-09-29 13:02, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:54:02 -0400, Daniel Gibson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Iain Buclaw <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> As far as I'm aware, they won't accept it because the latest release >>>> of GCC it >>>> works against is 4.4.x. Fedora ships 4.5.x, and will be moving onto >>>> the 4.6.x >>>> devel snapshot in a few months. >>>> >>>> The Pascal compiler has a similar problem too... >>>> >>>> Iain >>>> >>>> >>> What a pity. Are there plans for porting gdc to GCC 4.5 or 4.6? >>> >>> IIRC there were discussions about including a D compiler (possibly >>> GDC) into GCC - what's the status of that? >> >> IIRC, In order for that to happen, Walter would have to assign the >> copyright for the front end to GNU, not likely... >> >> -Steve > > Wasn't there talk about forking the DMD front end and assign the > copyright of the fork to GNU, if I recall correctly. Then DMD and the > fork would continue to evolve on their own.
I'd like to know how this is possible. I know it's possible to relicense code, but how can it have two copyright owners, one per copy, when the copies are identical and one is a copy of the other. It's the same code. Sure, if both parties start from scratch and work independently, but now it's the *same* work. I'm also asking this because it affects a lot of situations outside this community.
