Compiling with gdc vs. gdmd

[Leandro Lucarella]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling, el  4 de abril a las 15:43 me escribiste:
> On 04/04/12 14:24, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> >GPL extends to the build system? This is news to me... that seems a little
> >overzealous... (or maybe I'm interpreting it incorrectly)
> >
> >But point taken. If that's how the GPL works, then that's how it is.
> 
> From Section 1 of the GPL:
> 
>    The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the
>    source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run
>    the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those
>    activities.

> To see why it matters, imagine a corporate entity releasing a large,
> complex piece of software where the code was under a free licence
> but the build system was proprietary and internal to the company.
> It'd be a major block to practically enjoying the licence freedoms.

This is new to GPLv3 right? Because several companies are already doing
this, specially companies selling small devices with Linux, usually they

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