Debian install package for dmd?

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 12:12:17 PST 2008


Anders F Björklund Wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up 
> > essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a 
> > script, and voila! a self-installing download?
> 
> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in
> the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD.
> (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific
> to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)

Would you happen to know the minimal set of license changes that'd be required to allow a true debian package?  I'd love to see this happen for dmd.  That plus a package for libraries (both phobos and tango) that works with both dmd and gdc installations would be awesome!



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