dmd front end now switched to Boost license

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 13 17:46:52 PDT 2014


On 6/13/2014 4:31 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> It's probably nice to have less restrictive license, but what we aim to achieve
> with that?

1. Boost is the least restrictive license

2. Minimize friction for adopting D

3. Harmonization with usage of Boost in the runtime library

4. Allow commercial use of DMDFE (so what if someone does? It'll drive even more 
adoption of D!)

5. Boost is well known and accepted


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