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Le 23/10/2012 15:12, Era Scarecrow a écrit :
> On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 11:46:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 23 October 2012 12:34, jerro <a at a.com> wrote:
>>>> Perhaps FSF would help or some other open-source funding organisation?
>>>
>>> Wouldn't FSF have issues with the reference implementation's back end
>>> not being free software?
>>
>> We aren't celebrating dmd here, we are celebrating the D programming
>> language, which is a F/OSS project.
>
> I don't think FSF would be that picky. As Iain said, it's about the D
> language which is an open spec, and progress in the community as a
> whole. Afterall, if we were getting together to talk about AWK, they may
> contribute even considering a free version (Gawk) is available, and it
> isn't about which version you run at all. But the spec not being ANSI
> managed may provide some problems.
>
> I may get this wrong, but my understanding FSF's view (and spirit
> thereof) is about keeping the freedom; IE: Learning from eachother (be
> it mistakes or otherwise), enable the willingness to fix (or offer
> fixes), and allow you to improve any given piece of software with no
> personal or financial gain from it, out of only the love and want to
> help the community as a whole.

I worked with FSF several times, and they usually are really picky about 
process and have pretty strong criteria on almost everything you can 
think of :D

They usually are not the easiest organization to work with.