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