[phobos] Tango and the new time lib

[Don Clugston]

On 29 April 2010 16:52, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> 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.

I tried hard to get Tango to use the Boost license. More recently, I
tried to get the Boost license available as a standard option in the
Tango ddoc templates. They wouldn't even do that, and someone modified
my "support Boost license" ticket into "support Apache 2.0 license"
!!!!
I concluded that there is little chance of healing the Tango-Phobos
rift, because there are people on the Tango side who do not want
unity.
Sadly, it only takes one to tango.