Official compiler

Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 1 10:14:20 PST 2016


On 26/02/2016 06:19, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> I wish LLVM would switch to the Boost license, in particular removing
> this clause:
>
> "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
>
> Reading it adversely means if I write a simple utility and include a few
> lines from LLVM, I have to include that license in the binary and a
> means to print it out. If I include a bit of code from several places,
> each with their own version of that license, there's just a bunch of
> crap to deal with to be in compliance.

Then add the license info to a "readme" or "copyright" file. Is that 
really such a hassle? It seems a trivial task to me. For example:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/COPYRIGHT
(that file is included in the binary distributions)

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