The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Christopher Wright]

superdan wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
>> I don't believe that you would do so. But by requiring Tango to be 
>> placed in the public domain, you're allowing everyone else to do so.
> 
> he didn't require tango to be placed in the public domain. he asked for the same deal he gave to tango. actually he didn't even ask. he just mentioned what it takes for him to look at the code.

He wanted permission to license Tango as Phobos is licensed. Phobos was 
licensed in a BSD-like license, but Walter has been changing it to 
public domain.

Walter did explicitly say that he wanted to relicense Tango as public 
domain, I believe.

>> The BSD license is explicit permission. Or do you intend to redistribute 
>> Tango code without proper attribution?
> 
> no. he just wants to escape the tyranny of slander. he's just worried that a tyrangot will _claim_ walt redistributed tango code without proper attribution.

The accusation was ridiculous. As such, Walter would trivially fulfill 
the requirements of the BSD license.