[OT] open-source license issues
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Tue Apr 12 12:23:07 PDT 2011
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:op.vttw2bybeav7ka at steve-laptop...
> This, BTW, is why BSD is not acceptable for Phobos. The requirement to
> put the license in the documentation (even if you distribute binary-only)
> is no good. Yes, people have said that you can embed the license in the
> binary via a string, but the stigma is still there. There are some
> companies that will balk at that requirement. D should be available to
> anyone who wants to use it.
>
FWIW, zlib is very similar to BSD, but doesn't have that problem.
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