Last DMD made me truly breathless -- for the wrong reasons

[Anders F Björklund]

Georg Wrede wrote:

> We could have a few distros, each trying to be more user friendly,
> more outa-the-zip usable, and later distros for specific things, like
> games development, office stuff development, systems stuff, etc. If
> Linux seems to prosper with it, then I see no reason why D couldn't.

Linux is Free Software under the GPL, though ? Then again, so is GDC...
I think that a D "distro" is a great idea, but would prefer GNU GPL+FDL.

> The DMD license could deny charging for such distros. At the same time 
> the text would recommend contacting DM, "for very reasonable deals" on 
> for-profit distribution, including book-sleeve CDs.

AFAIK, the DM license forbids all re-distribution of the DMD software ?
So if I made a friendly installer for DMC/DMD, I couldn't distribute it.

--anders