Marketing D [ was Re: GCC 4.6 ]

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Oct 31 15:30:51 PDT 2010


Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 05:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> D is fully open source.
> 
> No, Walter, it isn't, and you should know this by now considering all 
> the past discussion. All the back-end work you're doing is "source 
> available". "Open source" was coined in 1998 by people with a precise 
> meaning: See http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd and 
> http://www.opensource.org/history .
> 
> In particular, free redistribution and derived works are fundamental to 
> the open source definition.

Yes, and GDC and LDC are 100% GPL.


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