DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Brad Roberts]

On 7/1/13 11:42 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/1/2013 10:45 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> Then they should choose a mixed license like the Mozilla Public License or CDDL,
>> which keeps OSS files open while allowing linking with closed source files
>> within the same application.  If they instead chose a license that allows
>> closing all source, one can only assume they're okay with it.  In any case, I
>> could care less if they're okay with it or not, I was just surprised that they
>> chose the BSD license and then were mad when someone was thinking about closing
>> it up.
>
> I should point out that the Boost license was chosen for Phobos specifically because it allowed
> people to copy it and use it for whatever purpose, including making closed source versions, adapting
> them for use with Go :-), whatever.

Actually, Boost was specifically chosen because it didn't require attribution when redistributing. 
If BSD hadn't had that clause we probably would be using it instead.