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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