dmd front end now switched to Boost license

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 06:07:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I doubt it. First, it's the backend that's not technically OSI, 
> frontend was (apparently) GPL. Second, I can't imagine any 
> Linux distro rejecting GPL - they'd have to boot the kernel and 
> core utils, too.

Actually, the frontend was dual-licensed under the Artistic 
license and the GPL and dmd binaries were provided under the 
former, as the GPL doesn't allow linking against a non-GPL 
backend.  The GPL alternative was likely for gdc to link the 
frontend against the GPL'd gcc backend.