On 6 October 2017 at 14:51, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@gdcproject.org> wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity, I did have a look at some of the tops of gofrontend >> sources this morning. They are all copyright the Go Authors, and are >> licensed as BSD. So I'm not sure if having copyright FSF and >> distributing under GPL is strictly required. And from a maintenance >> point of view, it would be easier to merge in upstream changes as-is >> without some diff/merging tool. > > The GCC steering committee accepted the gofrontend code under a > non-GPL license with the understanding that the master code would live > in a separate repository that would be mirrored into the GCC repo (the > master repository for gofrontend is currently at > https://go.googlesource.com/gofrontend/). Personally I don't see a > problem with doing the same for the D frontend. > > Ian
Should I request that maybe Donald from FSF chime in here? I'd rather avoid another stalemate on this. Regards Iain.
