From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15612 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2003 15:12:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15605 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2003 15:12:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl) (195.109.255.217) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2003 15:12:26 -0000 Received: from local ([127.0.0.1] helo=moene.indiv.nluug.nl) by book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASe6q-0008Mo-00; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:12:40 +0100 Message-ID: <3FD1F1D4.80701@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:41:00 -0000 From: Toon Moene Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch CC: Andreas Jaeger , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Name of front-end References: <200312051806.53790.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> <200312061530.42344.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00422.txt.bz2 Henrik Sorensen wrote: >>>Would there be any objections against naming the compiler front-end the >>>"GNU PL/1 compiler" ? >> >>What's the copyright situation of the code? Did you assign it to the >>FSF? > Currently I have not assigned the copyrigths, but this is clearly my > intentions. But to be honest, there isn't much going on in pl1 the compiler > yet. It is basically just a scanner and parser that gets invoked from gcc. That was the state of GNU Fortran 95 four years go - yet Andy Vaught, its author, assigned copyrights to the FSF. It makes it clear where you're heading w.r.t inclusion into the official GCC repository. Hope this helps, -- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ (under construction)