The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Aug 14 12:49:58 PDT 2008


== Quote from Lars Ivar Igesund (larsivar at igesund.net)'s article
> 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 ;)

Whatever, the difference is academic ;-) (I am on a roll with the bad jokes lately)


Sean



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