dmd Backend converted to Boost License

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 7 14:44:24 PDT 2017


On 4/7/2017 1:02 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> AFAIK the reasons it was chosen were
>
> 1. It's as close to public domain as you can get in international law

Yes.

> 2. It's on all of the "Accepted OSS Licenses" lists that major corps have
> because of Boost itself being used in those companies. If your license isn't on
> the list, your project isn't being used.

Yup. We figured every corporation that uses C++ has accepted Boost, so this 
would be a no-brainer for them to accept D's license.



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