On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 05:08:44AM -0800, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:36:08AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > 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. > > Just note that if you'll want to merge back from the FSF tree back to your > forked tree any changes made there by others, those changes will already be > copyrighted by the FSF and not Digital Mars.
You might be able to get RMS to agree to an alternative arrangement, but no one but him could approve it.
