Linking Phobos with libcurl

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:38:02 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Libcurl (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) is a high quality library for
> HTTP and FTP. I was thinking of using libcurl from Phobos, and as usual
> this brings up the usual suspects in terms of distribution and
> licensing.
> 
> Does anyone have insights about libcurl that could help us with this
> decision? My understanding is that libcurl is quite widespread on Linux
> so it wouldn't be a problem to just have the installer require it. Same
> deal seems to be on OSX. I'm not sure what the situation on Windows is.
> Ideas?


I found this page that discusses the licence issues of libcurl and its 
various optional and mandatory dependencies:

http://curl.haxx.se/legal/licmix.html

-Lars