dmd Backend converted to Boost License

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 8 09:48:06 PDT 2017


On 4/8/2017 1:36 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 7 April 2017 at 23:49, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Note that this also resolves the long-standing legal issue with D's inline
>> assembler being backend licensed, and so not portable to gdc/ldc.
>>
>
> That makes the assumption that license was the reason why it's not included. ;-)
>

Having an inline assembler is a lot less important than it used to be, so this 
is not a big issue. David also hinted that ldc wrote a work-alike, so this was 
likely an issue for them.


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