The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>  If this permission were given, Walter
>> could quite legally take all of Tango, relabel it as Phobos and 
>> distribute it as his own.  Not that I expect him to, but it would be 
>> within his rights to do so.
> 
> So could anyone with code in Phobos that I wrote and labeled Public 
> Domain. This hardly seems to be a sensible strategy to feed megalomania 
> <g>.
> 
> Falsely claiming ownership of public domain code is a futile gesture, as 
> the internet record of these things is not going away, and it would just 
> make the person that tried it a pathetic, obvious fraud.
> 
> Bottom line, I don't want the license in Phobos to be any impediment to 
> anyone wanting to use D.

Then, regardless of the Tango-Phobos runtime integration discussion, 
what do you say about Sean's comment that Phobos license might still 
pose some problems is certain situations?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D