The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote in message 
news:g813qj$amf$2 at digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> I have explained this to the main Tango developers on multiple
>>>> occasions. It is their right and privilege to license Tango as they see
>>>> fit, and I respect that and so have not spoken out on it before. But in
>>>> this thread I am being cast as a roadblock, which I feel is a little
>>>> unfair, so I will loosen my tongue and speak up a bit :-)
>>>
>>> And we have on equally many occasions told you that the code you need is
>>> available. :)
>>
>> I respectfully disagree. The Tango team has stopped short of providing a
>> license to use the Tango code in Phobos with a reciprocal agreement that
>> allows it to be distributed under the Phobos license. I also cannot
>> accept something vague, it has to be explicit.
>
> No, this is not correct. Neither me nor Kris (who have been the ones
> involved) have any sort of copyright on the runtime. Sean have, and he has
> given you this explicit agreemeent. As asserted elsewhere, and by others,
> the copyrights on the rest of Tango not pertaining to the runtime, is not
> of relevance.

Slightly OT, and directed at this whole situation: I just sit back and 
laugh.  *This* is open-source software?  *This* is the supposed "freedom" 
and "openness" that the whole movement is about?  People bickering for a 
_year_ over minutiae of licenses which are supposed to promote free use?

What have we accomplished?