How can D become adopted at my company?

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com
Thu Apr 26 07:59:06 PDT 2012


On 26/04/12 14:58, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 26/04/12 11:07, Don Clugston wrote:
>> <rant>
>> "open source" is a horrible, duplicitous term. Really what you mean is
>> "the
>> license is not GPL compatible".
>> </rant>
>
> No, I don't mean "GPL compatible". I'd be perfectly happy for the DMD
> backend to be released under a GPL-incompatible free/open source licence
> like the CDDL.
>
> The problem is not GPL compatibility but whether sufficient freedoms are
> granted to distribute and modify sources.

And the only one such limitation of freedom which has ever been 
identified, in numerous posts (hundreds!) on this topic, is that the 
license is not GPL compatible and therefore cannot be distributed with 
(say) OS distributions.

Everything else is FUD.


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