An idea for commercial support for D

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/01/15 13:08, uri via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Thanks for the correction, and a very important one at that in the context of
> this thread. I wasn't aware the backend was open source.

Er, I have to clarify again :-)  The backend license is not an open source one; 
it is, strictly speaking, proprietary:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/backendlicense.txt

However, the code is available, development on it is public, and Walter is very 
liberal in giving permissions to use, distribute and so on.  I think that it's 
only constraints on Walter himself that mean it is not under an open source licence.

That's what I mean when I say it is de facto open, rather than de jure.  But "in 
practice, not in law" is an important distinction.