The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
>> Thanks for clarifying this, and I apologize, Walter, and reiterate my
>> appreciation for what you do. But I was expressing my frustration at
>> what I thought the situation was. If there was discussion about
>> licensing issues I missed it. (I missed your earlier post in this
>> thread because I was busy "composing" my tirade.)
>>
>> From my point of view this puts the ball squarely back in Tango's
>> court. Is there a fundamental problem here? Can we move forward?
> 
> 
> I have not spoken out on it before out of respect for the Tango 
> developers' right to license Tango as they see fit. These discussions 
> have been done via email, not on a public forum. I know that not all of 
> the Tango developers were involved with it, as quite a diverse group has 
> worked on Tango, and I apologize for that.
> 
> But it is clearly time to bring this out into the open.

I don't want to speak for others, but I believe that the issue with 
opening up the license for Tango concerns the user code, not the 
runtime.  The initial request was for rights to all of Tango.


Sean