ANNOUNCEMENT: GNU-D opens up shop

[Walter Bright]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> I think we can reasonably say... TROLL ALERT. Everyone, for Bob's sake, 
> just go to www.dsource.org, pick a project or start your own, and get to 
> work.

Gabe isn't a troll. I've never known a troll to purchase a domain name 
and set up a web site on it for that purpose: http://www.gnu-d.org

I do think he's enthusiastic, and that's great! It's good for any 
community to have enthusiastic new members with ideas, especially if 
those ideas are disruptive. We should always be ready to reexamine our 
assumptions about what we're doing to make sure we're not deluding 
ourselves or overlooking the obvious.

For example, Gabe believes there is something wrong with the licensing 
for D, something that the GPL or LGPL would fix. I don't understand 
this, as the front end is GPL, gdc is fully GPL, and Phobos is either 
public domain or a far less restrictive license than even LGPL. I saw a 
similar comment on Digg. So something is giving the impression that D 
has a restrictive license.

I want to find out what that is, and fix it.

He's proposed establishing a wiki for D. There are already several 
(listed on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html). If those are 
inadequate, I want to know why.

I think he's overlooked Dsource. That's probably my fault, as the link 
to it is buried. I've now put a link to it on the front page.

Some of his comments are spot on, like the documentation being not good 
enough.

Gabe can be a valuable contributor. I hope he sticks around and helps 
out where his interests lead him.