GNU License warning:

[Ignacious via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 06:37:42 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 02:25:03 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 01:27:02 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> That makes no sense(it's obvious by the definition of 
>> derivative so you are not saying anything meaningful/useful). 
>> Obviously if you build an independent work you are free to 
>> chose a license and no one building any work off of yours or 
>> not can cause you problems.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I agree with you that the GPL is badly written, but we mostly 
> don't use it, basically only for the gdc compiler itself, so 
> not a big deal here.

Yes, but D uses mostly bindings and if any of those bindings use 
it then It effects the D program that uses it. Since many of the 
bindings are written in C/C++ one can expect that many of them 
use the GPL license.

The boost license seems acceptable but who knows? Look how many 
were "swindled" by GPL.