<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff, font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I have a pretty good feeling Walter would have no problem relicensing the front end if it meant D was included in a major IDE like Eclipse.<br><br>-Steve<br class="yui-cursor"><span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><div style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 0pt; font-size: 0pt; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0pt;" readonly="true" class="hr" contenteditable="false"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Wiley <debio264@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <dmd-beta@puremagic.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 9, 2011
4:02 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [dmd-beta] [OT] D2 Descent<br></font><br>
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Carlborg <<a ymailto="mailto:doob@me.com" href="mailto:doob@me.com">doob@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Yes, it's open source. It's based the DMD frontend, I think it's basically a<br>> Java port of the frontend. But in the long run it's hard to maintain,<br>> constantly need to keep up with DMD and port the changes.<br>> Actually I don't know how that is working out with the licenses. DMD fronten<br>> is GPL and Eclipse is EPL and they're not compatible<br>><br><br>Eclipse plugins can and have been published under almost every<br>license. The fact that it's not EPL just means it won't be officially<br>adopted by the Eclipse foundation, even if it ever reaches the level<br>of maturity required.<br>If you want to see the crazy licensing at work, take a look at<br>Subversive, the official Eclipse Subversion plugin. The plugin itself<br>is hosted at Eclipse, but the Subversion connectors that make
it<br>actually work have to be hosted off site and installed separately<br>because the licenses don't match.<br>_______________________________________________<br>dmd-beta mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dmd-beta@puremagic.com" href="mailto:dmd-beta@puremagic.com">dmd-beta@puremagic.com</a><br>http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta<br><br><br></div></div></div><br>
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