GNU License warning:

Ignacious via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 13 13:53:29 PST 2017


On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 19:30:40 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:19:57 +0000, Ignacious wrote:
>> 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.
>
> LGPL is much more common, and LGPL isn't a problem when you 
> distribute by source. It *is* a problem with static linking 
> with binary distributions (which is the default for D).
>
> This is not a new issue. Software licensing is a well 
> understood, well publicized concern. It doesn't merit alarmism.

Sure it does! Stop being a Nazi war criminal wanna be! Do you 
work for the FOSSF? Otherwise known as the F-OSS-F = Future - 
Office of Strategic Services - Foundation.






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