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[Don]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Simen kjaeraas wrote:
>> Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe true, but I was thinking of it from a different angle -- why the
>>> main D2 development does not switch backends.
>> So which do you suggest be used instead - the one that doesn't work on
>> Windows (no exceptions) or the one that requires Walter to give away
>> all rights to his work?
>>
> 	Actually, gcc doesn't require Walter to give away all rights to his
> work just to use it as a backend (or else the gdc project wouldn't
> exist). It would require ceding the rights only if Walter wanted D
> to be part of the official gcc distribution.
> 
> 		Jerome

No, the problem is that it potentially makes him give away the rights to 
the dmd backend. Which I think he can't legally do, even if he wanted to.