The dmd compiler license

[Tim Matthews]

hasen wrote:

> 
> Who is this Symantec entity that's preventing D from being truely open 
> source and forcing Walter to put crap in the license?
> 
> Are they the same Symantec at http://www.symantec.com/ ?


Some of this info is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec#Founding

It really shouldn't be a problem. Backend is not free(dom) but frontend 
is gpl so can be used with any other backend no problem as long as the 
other backend respect the frontend's gpl. Free enough frontend. How free 
do you need in that truely open source statement?


> How feasibly would it be to rewrite that portion as free software

Very and is exactly what ldc is http://dsource.org/projects/ldc