dlang.org faq says dmd is licensed with norton license

meppl via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 28 23:43:19 PDT 2017


i incidentally noticed the FAQ claims the dmd-backend would be 
licensed under a norton license. i thought it is an outdated 
information:
https://dlang.org/faq.html#q5


however, i also checked the source code and it turned out that 
some files dont contain the string "boost":
$ fgrep -iLR boost src/ddmd/backend/
src/ddmd/backend/bcomplex.h
src/ddmd/backend/dt.h
src/ddmd/backend/backend.txt
src/ddmd/backend/code_stub.h
src/ddmd/backend/dwarf2.h
src/ddmd/backend/dwarf.d
src/ddmd/backend/mach.d
src/ddmd/backend/md5.c
src/ddmd/backend/md5.h
src/ddmd/backend/bcomplex.c
src/ddmd/backend/mscoff.d
src/ddmd/backend/dwarf2.d
src/ddmd/backend/xmm.h
src/ddmd/backend/cv4.d
src/ddmd/backend/mscoff.h
src/ddmd/backend/mach.h
src/ddmd/backend/dwarf.h
src/ddmd/backend/melf.h
src/ddmd/backend/md5.d
src/ddmd/backend/bcomplex.d
src/ddmd/backend/cv4.h


do you think the missing license headers are relevant? If not, i 
would make a pull request for the FAQ


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