Official compiler

[Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 12:22:20 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 02/17/2016 09:28 PM, rsw0x wrote:
>> I'm curious where Andrei stands on this issue, IIRC he was 
>> upset at one
>> point that dmd could not be redistributed properly on linux 
>> distros.
>
> We'd love dmd's backend to have a more permissive license, and 
> we have tried to make it so. Regardless, the dmd compiler is an 
> important part of the D ecosystem and is here to stay. -- Andrei

Andrei, I agree with that. DMD is important and should be where 
most of the exploratory action happens. But does it really have 
to be the "face" of the D language?