dmd Backend converted to Boost License

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 19:37:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, April 07, 2017 08:14:40 Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680
>>
>> Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to 
>> relicense it. Thank you, Symantec!
>
> Well, this is certainly great news.
>
> Does this make dmd the only compiler that's fully 
> boost-licensed? Usually, licenses like the GPL or BSD license 
> get used. I don't get the impression that the boost license is 
> all that common - at least not for actual programs as opposed 
> to libraries. From what I've seen, the fact that we use it so 
> heavily in the D community is abnormal, though it's as 
> hassle-free as you can get with an open source license, which 
> is great.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I was thinking the same thing. Its probably the most permissive 
compiler out there now. MIT almost equal though.