Compiling with gdc vs. gdmd

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 05-04-2012 17:52, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 04/04/12 15:43, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> To see why it matters, imagine a corporate entity releasing a large,
>> complex
>> piece of software where the code was under a free licence but the
>> build system
>> was proprietary and internal to the company. It'd be a major block to
>> practically enjoying the licence freedoms.
>
> I should probably be more cautious there and say build _script_ rather
> than build _system_; I'm not sure the GPL legally forbids you releasing
> a program that builds using (say) a proprietary equivalent of the
> Autotools, so long as the build script itself is present.

In that case, that doesn't stop Waf though - your Waf build script is 
just in plain source form while Waf itself (which runs the script) is in 
compressed form.

>
> But a non-free build system would almost certainly be a block to
> inclusion in many of the major Linux distributions.

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- Alex