D being talked about at gcc.gnu.org

[John Reimer]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, clayasaurus wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if anyone has ever seen this link? Sorry if it has been brought up
>> before.
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00541.html
> 
> Yup.. subject has been brought up several times.  The problem is to be 
> integrated into the official gnu gcc source tree copyright has to be 
> signed over to the fsf.  That's a showstopper, unfortunatly.  IMHO, that's 
> a draconian policy, but it's RMS's right to set those policies for 
> software under the FSF umbrella no matter how much I think it hurts/sucks.
> 
> Thankfully, building GDC out of tree like it is today is very very easy.
> 
> Later,
> Brad


If the synesis software license is the only thing keeping gdc from gcc 
integration (as the responder's post implies), then that's not much to 
worry about, is it?  Get GDC working with Ares and everything should be 
fine.  I don't think Sean Kelly allows code with that kind of license to 
reside in Ares.

The poster seemed to indicate that the problem was only in the license 
of the current runtime.

-JJR