D port of dmd: Lexer, Parser, AND CodeGenerator fully operational

[Zach the Mystic]

On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 01:43:26 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Zach the Mystic" <reachMINUSTHISzachgmail at dot.com> wrote in 
> message
> news:afqmbmvuvizvgfooefqj at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> I'll gladly put a license on it if the leaders of the 
>> community tell me which one to use ( Artistic, libpng, Boost ).
>>
>> Zach
>
> It will need to be the same license as the frontend 
> (GPL/Artistic).  It
> should be at the top of each c++ source file.

It looks like the license is going to have to be GPL because it 
says so strictly in dmd's readme.txt. Somehow that license scares 
me, though. The "Free Software Foundation" seems like a very 
Orwellian institution to me. I hope it doesn't scare users away.

So be it.