DMD license question

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 8 01:55:51 PDT 2017


On 2017-08-07 23:56, Joakim wrote:

> Yes, the idea of the Boost Software License is that you don't have to
> ask such questions.  Boost allows you to do anything you want with the
> source, whether embedding, modifying, etc. and you don't have to ask
> anyone for permission or even mention that you're using someone else's
> software to your users, as the BSD advertising clause requires.

That's not entirely true. The license and copyright notice need to be 
included somewhere if you're distributing the source code. If you're 
_only_ distributing machine code, the license or copyright need not to 
be included.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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