DMD Modifications
Spacen Jasset
spacenjasset at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 21 07:37:44 PDT 2009
Daniel Keep wrote:
> white_man wrote:
>> Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with full information about authors. Does it legal?
>
> It depends. If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
> identified as being licensed under GPL [1]), then you can distribute the
> modified front-end.
>
> However, if you modify the back end, you cannot redistribute those
> files. You also cannot distribute a compiled version.
>
> To be safe, it's probably best to just distribute any changes you make
> as a patch.
>
> -- Daniel
>
>
> [1] There's another license involved, but I forget what it's called.
Presumably you can modify and distribute LDC (under the GPL terms if it
is GPL. I forget)?
LDC = Front End + LLVM
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