my opinion on secrecy of D license

[Georg Wrede]

Dejan Lekic wrote:
> Well, you might think it is wrong - i certainly do not. dmd\license.txt 
> and dmd\src\phobos\phoboslicense.txt files in DMD package tell 
> everything people shold know, in plain english.

The problem is just that not everybody does find, download and unzip the 
DMD package, and then seek the files you mentioned. (I'm an old one 
here, but I'm not talking about myself, rather the thousands of new-to-D 
people who come and go.) A lot of people want to know the licensing 
issues up front, before wasting their time downloading stuff.

So, first, the license stuff has to be so prominent that folks see it 
before having to search for it.

And second, it has to be written "in plain language". (There can then of 
course be a pointer to the Real Legalese, or to those two files you 
mentioned, but the prominently visible text itself just has to be 
understandable right off the bat.)