DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Walter Bright]

On 7/1/2013 2:04 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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.

That was indeed another important reason for it. But we were well aware of and 
approved of the idea that people could take it and make closed source versions.