D compiler as part of GCC

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 24 14:23:27 PST 2010


On 1/24/2010 2:13 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> That's the question that Walter asked to have clarified, but that's
>> not the
>> question that was asked.  Asking the gcc developers is also a bad idea
>> since
>> they're not lawyers.  The only way to really handle this correctly is
>> to have
>> lawyers do the question asking of lawyers.  Having lay people
>> (including myself)
>> as intermediaries and interpreters is just wrong.
> 
> You're probably right, the only way to do this is to consult a lawyer.
> That's going to be thousands of dollars. And frankly, I've never worked
> with a lawyer who was willing to commit to any particular legal opinion
> anyway.

You're probably versed enough to do the talking for yourself with one of the FSF
lawyers.  Chances are that might actually not cost you anything.


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