On 11/08/2010 11:13 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > > Joseph S. Myers wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> >>> Who do I need to talk to in order to resolve the various licensing >>> issues so >>> this becomes possible? >>> >> >> The FSF, via the Steering Committee, via this list. The standard >> assignment and licensing policies are as described in the Mission >> Statement <http://gcc.gnu.org/gccmission.html>. Any special >> arrangement like that for the Go front end (where part providing the >> GCC interface is assigned to the FSF and maintained in the GCC tree >> and part that could be used with other back ends is maintained >> externally with third-party copyright) needs specific approval. (Note >> that the Go front end does not yet achieve the level of separation >> achieved by Ada, for example; there are plenty of uses of GCC's tree >> interfaces in the gofrontend/ directory that mean portability to other >> back ends is more theory than reality.) > > The D specific part of gdc is already GPL, it's just copyrighted by > Digital Mars. I understand the copyright must be reassigned to the FSF. > Is it possible to fork the code, and assign copyright of one fork to the > FSF and leave the other copyrighted by Digital Mars?
The FSF generally allows a grant-back: that is, you assign your code to the FSF, which immediately grants you an unlimited licence to do whatever you want with it. Andrew.
