D compiler as part of GCC

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 19 10:12:53 PST 2010


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> I agree that embarking a new front-end will be a huge effort that probably
> will end up abandoned before it's completed, unless there is some economic
> sponsorship or something, but having a front-end which copyright can be
> given to the FSF is a necessary condition to merge GDC (or whatever it's
> named) to GCC.

Will they take a fork of the dmd source, such that they own the 
copyright to the fork and Digital Mars still has copyright to the original?


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