Dear GCC Steering Committee, I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup having expertise in Ada programming language technologies. As a summary, we would like to know if gcc has interest in an assignment of copyright to FSF from our work. We are not used to this process, and are kindly soliciting your support on this task. Our work is about Ada compiler support on GCC for OpenVMS.
AdaLabs Ltd (http://adalabs.com) and PIA-SOFER SARL (http://pia-sofer.fr) have worked hard to make Ada available again on OpenVMs using GCC (ia64-hp-openvms). Both entities share ownership, while AdaLabs is also the author of the work. Our work is based on gcc-4.7.4, and consists in building a gcc compiler for openvms ia64 (through native, cross and canadian build, starting from x86_64-linux-gnu to finally reach ia64-hp-openvms). The modifications are of two flavours: - patches to make the builds successful (in native, cross and canadian builds) - patches/backports to implement Ada/VMS related features, that are present in gcc version after gcc-4.7.4 (in native, cross and canadian builds). In the case you are interested in our copyright assignment proposal, we would be pleased to continue this process. In the case you are not interested in our copyright assignment proposal, we would be pleased if you could advise us on the best way to make our work available to the GNU/FSF community, especially concerning the licenses and copyrights management. I am at your disposal concerning any information you may need to take a stand concerning this proposal. Best Regards, -- David SAUVAGE Software Agile Architect, Director AdaLabs Ltd - Mauritius http://adalabs.com +230 542 818 32 skype sauvaged BRN C10097052
