[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

Walter Bright via dmd-internals dmd-internals at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 23 23:08:26 PDT 2014


On 6/23/2014 6:44 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> My understanding is that in each case, work was wasted because it was under 
> license A which couldn't be converted to license B. Boost converts to 
> everything else happily, which is why it was picked. Therefore this problem 
> does not exist with boost.

Again, you are assuming that no flaws are found in Boost and the laws don't 
change. I wish to point out again that both the GPL and BSD licenses have been 
revised.

We'd be placing an enormous bet that you are right - and the downside would be 
disaster like what happened to Tango.



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