The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Sean Kelly wrote:

> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> lurker wrote:
>>> Hullo,
>>>
>>> Thats not happening now or recently. The ball its been rotting in
>>> Tango's court for one year plus. This is huge. I might need a couple
>>> days to process this information. Naming names is scary but, ..... is
>>> Walter saying Kris and Lars "MI Is Evil" Igesund deliberately
>>> prevented unification progress?
>>>
>>> One thing for sure.
>>> assert(cat !in bag);
>>>
>>> -Lurker
>> 
>> Dozens of people have worked on Tango. Tracking who owns the code is
>> nontrivial, as is contacting some of them. It might be impossible to get
>> a license change cleared.
>> 
>> Of course, if Walter replaced the Phobos runtime entirely with Tango's,
>> that might not be an issue. But it would involve using the BSD license
>> for those parts.
> 
> Tango is actually dual licensed under both the BSD and an artistic
> license.  We had actually considered a public domain license before
> Tango was announced until it was pointed out (by Thomas Kuehne, I
> believe) that copyright laws in some countries don't allow public domain
> as an option and treat such code as if the owner had not licensed it at
> all.  Then we considered the ZLib license because it doesn't require
> attribution like the BSD license, but there were objections for this
> being a nonstandard license.  So we finally settled on a dual BSD and
> artistic license to allow Tango to be the most broadly usable.

Academic, not artistic ;)

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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