Re: Copyright assignment for Rust-GCC

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:29 AM Nala Ginrut via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks!
> This mail is about the development of Rust frontend of GCC.
>
> To avoid misunderstanding, please let me introduce Rust-GCC briefly.
> In 2013, Philip Herron had announced the project in GCC mailing-list:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00017.html
> In 2019, @SimplyTheOther had contributed the almost complete parser and
> AST.
> And I helped to do some trivial work to make it work with the latest GCC
> at that time.
> Of course there are more contributors that I can't mention one by one.
> At that time, a small community of Rust-GCC had formed. We're interested
> in continuing it till it can be merged into GCC.
> https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
> So this is the brief history.
>
> Now we have a question, when should we assign copyright paper for GNU?
> Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper
> mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recognized by GCC
> community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this
> issue.
>
> Comments are welcome.

As Jeff wrote, the assignment is for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
project, not for specific languages.  One does /not/ submit separate
assignments for GNU Fortran, GNU C++, GNU Go, GNU Ada, GNU Modula2,
etc.

Please have all of the developers start the FSF copyright assignment
process now.

Thanks, David