[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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