my opinion on secrecy of D license

[Dave]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> 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.)

Yes - right by the download links something simply stating that DMD / 
Phobos can be used in any way the programmer sees fit to build 
applications and libraries, and DMD / Phobos themselves do not place any 
distribution restrictions on anything built with them. Then a pointer to 
where the license text is in the package should do it.