Foss Exception

Steve Teale steve.teale at britseyeview.com
Sat Oct 15 11:29:53 PDT 2011


On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:08:28 +0200, sclytrack wrote:

> On 10/14/2011 09:27 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
>>>
>>> 2) would be a thin wrapper around the C API. I think that runs against
>>> Phobos' philosophy especially with eventually four layers of
>>> abstraction. I'm just saying. Wouldn't mind personally.
>>
>> Marco,
>>
>> Not if it's anything like the piece I'm working on, which if I judge by
>> the effort I've put into it, is not thin. Perhaps I'm at the wrong
>> level.
>>
>> I hope to put an infant version on github before the weekend is out,
>> then you can judge.
>>
>> Steve
> 
> nice :-)
> 
> 
> 
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> http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/

It's Greek to me. But we're not considering distributing their library - 
the closest we come is the translation to D of three of their header 
files.

And the source code will be available, and there's a long list of 
exceptions, but whether we pass or not I can't tell at this time of day.

Steve
> 
> I'm not sure how to interpret this.



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