The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 19:22:12 PDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:25:50PM -0400, Christopher Wright wrote:
> The accusation was ridiculous. As such, Walter would trivially fulfill 
> the requirements of the BSD license.

What about the users of the language? Suppose the standard library was
BSD licensed and I wrote a D program. Am I now required to add their
copyright notice with my program whenever I distribute it?

That's a pain in the ass. I like to distribute my programs in binary form
just by giving a link to the .exe saying 'here it is, do whatever you want
with it. Have fun!' With the BSD license restrictions, I couldn't do that.

The license in the phobos files is perfect for me. That's how a standard
library should be licensed - infinitely convenient.

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Adam D. Ruppe
http://arsdnet.net



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