The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:15:50 +0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
>>> Thanks for clarifying this, and I apologize, Walter, and reiterate my
>>> appreciation for what you do. But I was expressing my frustration at
>>> what I thought the situation was. If there was discussion about
>>> licensing issues I missed it. (I missed your earlier post in this
>>> thread because I was busy "composing" my tirade.)
>>>
>>> From my point of view this puts the ball squarely back in Tango's
>>> court. Is there a fundamental problem here? Can we move forward?
>>   I have not spoken out on it before out of respect for the Tango  
>> developers' right to license Tango as they see fit. These discussions  
>> have been done via email, not on a public forum. I know that not all of  
>> the Tango developers were involved with it, as quite a diverse group  
>> has worked on Tango, and I apologize for that.
>>  But it is clearly time to bring this out into the open.
>
> I don't want to speak for others, but I believe that the issue with  
> opening up the license for Tango concerns the user code, not the  
> runtime.  The initial request was for rights to all of Tango.
>
>
> Sean

That's a merger - a process so many people are waiting for!