D Compiler as a Library

[Nick Sabalausky]

"David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
news:ebhaxqxtjuccyqfyapfo at forum.dlang.org...
> On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 09:58:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> There's no attribution in MIT.
>
> »The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included 
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software« - I am not a 
> lawyer, but I what makes you so sure that binaries don't fall under this 
> requirement as well?
>
> The Boost people also seem to interpret MIT as requiring binary 
> attribution; Dave Abrahams mentioned the binary clause in Boost as a 
> difference to MIT in his OSI approval request at least ([1]).
>

I'm pretty sure that "attribution" typically refers to the requirement that 
software X which *uses* software Y must include notice that software Y is 
being used.

But you're right that MIT doesn't make it clear whether binary-only 
redistributions of software Y must contain the license and copyright notice.