D library projects

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:48:27 -0500, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:40:10 -0500, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> > grauzone wrote:
>> >> Ever heard of Tango?
>> >
>> > Yes, and I'd be happy to:
>> >
>> > 1. have Tango available for D2 and work with Druntime.
>> >
>> > 2. move individual packages from Tango to Phobos. This would require
>> > permission from the author(s) of those packages, as they'd need to be
>> > relicensed. (Tango uses the BSD license which seems to require notice  
>> on
>> > all binaries compiled with it, this is unacceptable for Phobos.) So  
>> far,
>> > only Sean and Don have been willing to do this.
>> Tango is dual-licensed.  The other license it uses (the Academic Free
>> License 3.0) allows binary distribution without attribution.
>> See http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/License
>> -Steve
>
> Is there a plain English explanation of the Academic Free License  
> anywhere?  I
> read this somewhere on the Tango website before, but I wasn't sure how  
> significant
> it was, since the Academic Free License is dense, long legalese w/o any  
> plain
> English explanations.

Agreed, it was in fact my mis-interpretation of the AFL that caused Tango  
to put the second note on the above referenced license page ;)  See  
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=82496

> It would be truly great if Tango could be used under a license with  
> permissiveness
> equivalent to the Boost license.  It would help mend a pretty  
> significant rift in
> the D community that started over a minor technicality.

I wouldn't waste any time trying to get Tango to change their license.   
Aside from being an almost insurmountable task to get all the developers  
to agree to do it, since the AFL allows permissions that are exactly in  
line with what the Tango devs want, I don't think they have any reason to  
change it.

-Steve