Phobos licensing
Carlos Santander
csantander619 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 07:52:23 PDT 2007
Bill Baxter escribió:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>>> But it's jumping the gun because I suspect Matthew Wilson might be
>>>> willing to change the license. At least I'm guessing so, because
>>>> std.openrj is also by him, and it has a reasonable license.
>>>
>>> If someone wants to take the lead on this, and either ask Matthew to
>>> change the license, or replace those modules, I'll be happy with
>>> either. As it stands, none of them are lynchpins of Phobos, and can
>>> be simply dropped without affecting the rest.
>>
>> AFAIK, Matthew *did* change the license on those, and GDC followed this.
>> Not sure about std.openrj, but definitely so with registry and loader...
>>
>> See DMD Bug #321: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=321
>> and Wiki4D: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?PhobosLicenseIssues
>>
>> --anders
>
> Great. Thanks for that info. But where is the paper trail showing that
> Matthew agreed? Is there a newsgroup post you can point to?
>
> Closest thing I could find was this
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/12879.html
> in which Mr. Wilson declares "I don't have a problem with donating my IP
> to Phobos". But that's not a specific statement that any particular IP
> *has* been donated to Phobos.
>
> --bb
I knew I'd seen this somewhere:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=31544
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Carlos Santander Bernal
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