Why all the D hate?

[Brad Roberts]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> retard, el 24 de agosto a las 15:36 me escribiste:
> > Probably answering to a troll, but..
> > 
> > 
> > Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:14:37 -0400, igabrieL wrote:
> > 
> > > - GDB developers refsue to apply up to date D patches
> > 
> > This is a copyright issue. GDB is owned by the FSF and you cannot use any 
> > Digital Mars code in it. You need to assign the copyright to them.
> 
> That's true, but I don't know where the original affirmation come from,
> who is trying to push patches to GDB now? I followed very closely the
> inclusion of D support patches in GDB and it took a lot of time to merge
> them because nobody cared to do it. When someone tried to do it, he just
> did (it took some time because of the paperwork needed, because as
> retard say, you have to assign the copyright to the FSF to include big
> changes, as D support patches was).
> 

I also have evidence that follow up patches to fix simple bugs aren't hard 
to get submitted to GDB.  Mine was small enough to not need a copyright 
assignment form and only took a week or two -- mostly just that I didn't 
ping anyone after sending it to the patch mailing list.

Later,
Brad