[phobos] Tango and the new time lib

[Sean Kelly]

That's effing ridiculous.  The D community could really do without  
this kind of behavior.

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On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>  
wrote:

> One of the Tango developers called me today. There are 5 developers  
> of the Tango time library, and they feel that the Phobos time lib  
> submission is close enough to theirs to be considered an  
> infringement on their license. The Tango license is the BSD license,  
> which does not permit others changing the license, such as to Boost  
> which is the Phobos license.
>
> I am not qualified to compare the two source code bases and make a  
> legal determination if there is infringement or not. And quite  
> frankly, I don't want to split legal hairs about it against the  
> Tango developers' wishes. I've invited the Tango devs to subscribe  
> to this mailing list, and I hope we can come to a resolution:
>
> 1. I think the best solution would be for Tango to relicense the  
> time module under the Boost license, which would require the  
> agreement of the five time module developers. Then, the Phobos  
> version would include them as authors and they'd share in the  
> copyright.
>
> 2. Next would be if the Tango developers who do agree to the Boost  
> license would identify their contributions, those would get  
> authorship & copyright credit, etc. Tango developers who do not  
> agree would identify code they consider infringing, and that code  
> would be removed from the Phobos version, and possibly reimplemented  
> by someone who has not looked at the Tango version.
>
>
> The bottom line is the Tango devs should get the final say on what  
> is infringing and what isn't, and we won't relicense infringing code  
> into Phobos without their explicit permission.
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