Masahiro Nakagawa and SHOO invited to join Phobos developers

[Don]

Moritz Warning wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:24:22 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Moritz Warning wrote:
> [..]
>>> Maybe you can talk to the Tango devs to clear up this matter?
>> I suggest that the Tango devs convert the Tango modules that can get
>> full agreement by their respective devs be converted to the Boost
>> license. The Boost license is free of the legal problems that BSD has,
>> and is compatible with the Phobos license.
> 
> As far as I have heard, Tango changed it's license to be compatible with 
> Phobos in the first place. But Phobos then changed it's license and now 
> it's incompatible again. 

That is 100% incorrect. Tango always used a more restrictive license 
than Phobos. Tango has always been able to use Phobos code, but the 
reverse does not apply.

> What were the reasons for Phobos to change the license?
Phobos was mostly public domain, which has legal problems (eg in Japan).
The boost license is the closest equivalent to public domain.