dmd front end now switched to Boost license

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 17:07:58 UTC, Leandro Lucarella 
wrote:
> No free license restrict commercial use. What using boost 
> enable is only
> proprietary use, i.e. changing the DMD FE and keeping the 
> changes
> private, even if you distribute the binary with the compiled 
> DMDFE. As I
> said before, there are licenses that allow anyone linking your 
> code to
> non-free code, but you still have to provide the source code of 
> the
> modified DMDFE if you distribute it. An example is LGPL.

The frontend was dual-licensed under the Artistic license, which 
also allows such proprietary use, so nothing has really changed.  
Rather than having two licenses, the Artistic license to allow 
linking against the proprietary dmd backend and the GPL to allow 
linking against the gcc backend, the dmd frontend now has a 
single Boost license that allows both, since the Boost license is 
considered GPL-compatible.

 From the standpoint of what the frontend's license allows, not 
much has changed, but the simplicity and clarity of the Boost 
license puts the frontend on firmer footing.

I realize you prefer the LGPL, to force others to contribute back 
to the frontend if they modify and distribute it, but the Boost 
license is much simpler and as Walter points out, proprietary use 
can help D's adoption.