D compiler as part of GCC

[Walter Bright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 23 de enero a las 12:54 me escribiste:
>> Jerry Quinn wrote:
>>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Hi, Walter,
>>>
>>> The answer appears to be yes:
>>>
>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00430.html
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>> That's great news. I suppose I should look over the forms they talk about!
> 
> Great news indeed! Since DMD FE is GPL I think it won't be any trouble to
> fold in the new changes back to GDC as they did (and LDC too), so it won't
> be really a *fork*, right?

Well, still I won't be supporting gdc directly. It would mean a team 
that would be willing to take new DMD FE updates and fold them into GDC, 
and then follow whatever gcc's build and release conventions are.


> Walter, please, please, please let us know how this progresses. Thanks!

Who in the FSF is a contact person about this?