Hitchikers Guide to Porting Phobos / D Runtime to other architectures

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-01-10 01:02, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Because of this clause from the Boost license page:
>
> "The conceptual interface to a library isn't covered. The
> particular representation expressed in the header is covered, as
> is the documentation, examples, test programs, and all the other
> material that goes with the library. A different implementation
> is free to use the same logical interface, however. Interface
> issues have been fought out in court several times; ask a lawyer
> for details."
>
> I suspect that an automatic translation might be subject to the
> "representation" issue, while a manual rewrite should not.

I see, that sucks :(. I guess this is a fine line since you very well 
could en up with the same result of a manual and automatic translation.

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/Jacob Carlborg