Re: Copyright assignment for Rust-GCC

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

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:48 AM Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/4/21 11:01 PM, Eric Gallager via Gcc wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:13 AM David Edelsohn via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> > Speaking of Modula2, has that frontend made it into mainline GCC yet? I see
> > there was a bugzilla component for it added, but I don't remember seeing
> > anything about it in the changes.html file for any existing releases...
> No.  I haven't seen anyone even trying in a while.

Maybe Jeff is not caught up with his email.

The GCC SC previously accepted Modula2 support. Richard Biener
approved the patch merge a few days ago and Gaius is planning to
proceed.

Thanks, David