Migrating dmd to D?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:01:20PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/1/2013 6:55 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> >On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 02:35:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>On 3/1/2013 7:43 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >>>Wow. You make me feel really lucky that at my day job, I once made
> >>>a request to use a particular piece of open source software, and
> >>>the legal department actually replied with "the license is MIT, it
> >>>should be OK, approved."
> >>
> >>This is exactly why we are using a well-known license, rather than
> >>rolling our own.
> >
> >
> >Anyway the DDMD maintainer was asked about the license in 2010, he
> >never picked one but it seemed like he was open to anything:
> >http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=25763#25763
> 
> I'd recommend Boost or GPL. Anyhow, it's a pity to see his work go to
> waste because of no license.

I would personally go for GPL, but it does scare certain companies off
-- I've personally witnessed that.  Just FWIW.


T

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