[phobos] Tango and the new time lib

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

I agree, and I also find their claim rather strange.  I don't think they
can prevent others from creating code with a similar interface to
theirs.  (If that were the case, the Wine and Mono devs would be in big
trouble.)

So that leaves the code.  Unless SHOO has copy-pasted the code from
Tango, I cannot see how their claim holds any water.  There are only so
many ways to figure out which day of the month it is.

-Lars


On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 07:52 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> That's effing ridiculous.  The D community could really do without  
> this kind of behavior.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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