Free the DMD backend

Alex Parrill via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 18:35:14 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:18:34 UTC, default0 wrote:
> I have no idea how licensing would work in that regard but 
> considering that DMDs backend is actively maintained and may 
> eventually even be ported to D, wouldn't it at some point 
> differ enough from Symantecs "original" backend to simply call 
> the DMD backend its own thing?

The way I understand it is that no matter how different a 
derivative work (such as any modification to DMD) gets, it's 
still a derivative work, and is subject to the terms of the 
license of the original work.


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