DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Tue Jan 18 07:31:22 PST 2011


On 18/01/11 01:09, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>> Speaking of which, are you able to remove the "The Software was not designed
>>> to operate after December 31, 1999" sentence at all, or does that require
>>> you to mess around contacting symantec? Not that anyone reads it, it is kind
>>> of off putting to see that over a decade later though for anyone who bothers
>>> reading it :P
>>
>> Consider it like the DNA we all still carry around for fish gills!
>
> In all seriousness, the backend license makes dmd look very strange.  It
> threw the lawyers I consulted for a serious loop.  At a casual glance it
> gives the impression of software that's massively out of date and out of
> touch with the real world.
>
> I know that updating it would likely be very painful, but is it just
> painful or impossible?  Is it something that money could solve?
>
> I'd chip in to a fund to replace the license with something less... odd.
>
> Later,
> Brad

Make that a nice open source license and I'm happy to throw some money 
at it too :>

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Robert
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