is this FUD?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2008-03-08 05:37:50 -0500, B Jakob <benzofurans-mail001 at yahoo.com> said:

> (http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/52462.html):
> 
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> "[...] GDC, the only working GCC frontend (http://dgcc.sf.net/ ), is 
> largely copyrighted to DigitalMars. This makes it impossible to 
> officially include it in the GCC distribution. [...]"
> 
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> on the wiki4d page they say:
> (http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FaqRoadmap#Licensing)
> 
> "The DMD front-end source is available under dual ( GPL and  Artistic) licens"

Both are true: the DMD Front End is copyrighted to Digital Mars but 
Digital Mars makes it available under the GPL and Artistic licenses. 
The issue is that the FSF won't include code in the official GCC tree 
if the copyright is under someone else's name, even if available under 
the GPL. They want the copyright assigned to them, or the work given to 
public domain.

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Michel Fortin
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