Question on Dual-Licensing Some Code for Phobos

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:35:18AM +0000, codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Just the fact that you've seen that source code, is enough to have
> already 'contaminated' you with that source code's licence, and, that
> could (potentially)constitute your work as being a derivative work.
> 
> Lesson? Be careful what source code you look at ;-)

This is why Walter does not look at the code for any other compiler --
he could potentially be accused of stealing code from others.

Though I'm not sure if this has changed now that Symantec has so
graciously granted him to relicense the DMD backend code (which is
shared with DMC, IIRC).


T

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