D being talked about at gcc.gnu.org

[Sean Kelly]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, John Reimer wrote:
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, clayasaurus wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wonder if anyone has ever seen this link? Sorry if it has been brought
>>>> up
>>>> before.
>>>>
>>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00541.html
>>> Yup.. subject has been brought up several times.  The problem is to be
>>> integrated into the official gnu gcc source tree copyright has to be signed
>>> over to the fsf.  That's a showstopper, unfortunatly.  IMHO, that's a
>>> draconian policy, but it's RMS's right to set those policies for software
>>> under the FSF umbrella no matter how much I think it hurts/sucks.
>>>
>>> Thankfully, building GDC out of tree like it is today is very very easy.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Brad
>>
>> If the synesis software license is the only thing keeping gdc from gcc
>> integration (as the responder's post implies), then that's not much to worry
>> about, is it?  Get GDC working with Ares and everything should be fine.  I
>> don't think Sean Kelly allows code with that kind of license to reside in
>> Ares.
>>
>> The poster seemed to indicate that the problem was only in the license of the
>> current runtime.
>>
>> -JJR
> 
> He was only pointing out _a_ problem, not the only one.  The license 
> issues do need to be worked out.  Files at issue:
> 
> ./phobos/etc/c/recls/*
> ./phobos/etc/c/stlsoft/*
> ./phobos/std/loader.d
> ./phobos/std/mmfile.d
> ./phobos/std/openrj.d
> ./phobos/std/recls.d
> ./phobos/std/windows/registry.d
> 
> The first two are likely to be dropped from phobos, based on other threads 
> elsewhere.  The rest need to be worked out still.

The GC code and portions of the runtime are a potential issue as well. 
I know that Walter has made much of this public domain, but that's 
different from signing the copyright over to the FSF as far as I know.

Ares is a possibility for the standard library, but I'm not terribly 
anxious to sign it over to the FSF either, sparse or no.  Unless they're 
amenable to a BSD type license?


sean