Fedora 14 will integrate D into the distribution

[retard]

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:28:33 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> On 2010-09-29 13:02, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:54:02 -0400, Daniel Gibson
>> <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> As far as I'm aware, they won't accept it because the latest release
>>>> of GCC it
>>>> works against is 4.4.x. Fedora ships 4.5.x, and will be moving onto
>>>> the 4.6.x
>>>> devel snapshot in a few months.
>>>>
>>>> The Pascal compiler has a similar problem too...
>>>>
>>>> Iain
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What a pity. Are there plans for porting gdc to GCC 4.5 or 4.6?
>>>
>>> IIRC there were discussions about including a D compiler (possibly
>>> GDC) into GCC - what's the status of that?
>>
>> IIRC, In order for that to happen, Walter would have to assign the
>> copyright for the front end to GNU, not likely...
>>
>> -Steve
> 
> Wasn't there talk about forking the DMD front end and assign the
> copyright of the fork to GNU, if I recall correctly. Then DMD and the
> fork would continue to evolve on their own.

I'd like to know how this is possible. I know it's possible to relicense 
code, but how can it have two copyright owners, one per copy, when the 
copies are identical and one is a copy of the other. It's the same code. 
Sure, if both parties start from scratch and work independently, but now 
it's the *same* work. I'm also asking this because it affects a lot of 
situations outside this community.