The dmd compiler license

Don nospam at nospam.com
Thu Jun 25 00:06:07 PDT 2009


Mike Parker wrote:
> Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> IIRC, Walter said that's the legacy Symantec license and he can't change 
> it.
Yes. I wonder if he could add a statement to that effect?



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