Masahiro Nakagawa and SHOO invited to join Phobos developers

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 04/29/2010 01:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> It looks like the Tango devs are pretty much settled on BSD-only with
>> some hack to get around the binary attribution thing:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701
>
> The problem with the hack is everyone trying to use the library
> professionally will (if one is lucky) ask about the binary attribution
> thing, and one would have to convince them that the hack takes care of
> it. This puts a never ending burden on the team.
>
> If one is unlucky, they'll just avoid the library because of that
> license, and you'll never hear from them about the lost opportunity.
>
> Those options are bad and worse, hence changing the license is a much
> more attractive proposition going forward.

OTish: What would be funny is if the tango team didn't take the pains to 
ensure the compiler didn't strip the string out during optimization. Or 
compress it. Or obfusticate it.