Marketing D [ was Re: GCC 4.6 ]

[Christopher Bergqvist]

Would it be possible to organize a "bounty" for having the backend released under an OSI-approved license?

On Oct 31, 2010, at 22:48, Jeff Nowakowski <jeff at dilacero.org> wrote:

> On 10/31/2010 05:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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>> D is fully open source.
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> 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.