The dmd compiler license

Michiel Helvensteijn m.helvensteijn.remove at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 01:17:06 PDT 2009


Daniel Keep wrote:

> Walter has a test suite for DMD, and there's the huge one on (I think)
> puremagic.
> 
> OH NO!  All our programs will stop compiling on Jan 1 2000... wait...
> 
> I think the existence of these forums and the bugtracker says otherwise.

Relax. I'm not saying that those things are true, but they ARE in the
license. And I'm saying that if everything in that license were true, those
are the lines I'd worry about.

You've got to admit, it's a pretty strange license.

>> Those are pretty direct statements about the state of the compiler. The
>> rest is pretty vague; standard disclaimer stuff.
> 
> No, I think they are also of a "you can't sue me if it asplodes" nature.

They call that a disclaimer.

-- 
Michiel Helvensteijn




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