D: A language without focus

[jcc7]

In article <e2pqob$iba$1 at digitaldaemon.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= says...
>
>Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The license for Phobos is in one of the following forms:
>> 
>> 1) public domain
>> 
>> 2)
>> /*
>>  *  Copyright (C) 2006 by [your name]
>>  *  Written by [your name]
>>  *
>>  *  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
>>  *  warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
>>  *  arising from the use of this software.
>>  *
>>  *  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
>>  *  including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
>>  *  freely, subject to the following restrictions:
>>  *
>>  *  o  The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
>>  *     claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
>>  *     in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation 
>> would be
>>  *     appreciated but is not required.
>>  *  o  Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
>>  *     be misrepresented as being the original software.
>>  *  o  This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
>>  *     distribution.
>>  */
>> 
>> I think that covers it. It's open source, and far less restrictive than 
>> the GPL.
>
>If you want to make things easier/shorter when talking with Open Source 
>guys, this license is commonly known as the "zlib / libpng license"...
>
>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php
>
>
>However, for DMD 0.154 it is not entirely true. There are still some
>exceptions to this rule, mostly for the old Synesis Software modules:
>
>http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?PhobosLicenseIssues
>
>As many have pointed out, std.loader and std.recls needs to be fixed.
>My own suggestion is to rewrite std.loader, and to drop the std.recls ?
>
>--anders

I thought Walter had already announced (back in February) that he was going to
remove std.recls.

http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/33352

But I guess that hasn't happened yet.

jcc7