Debian install package for dmd?
Jason House
jason.james.house at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 12:12:17 PST 2008
Anders F Björklund Wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up
> > essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a
> > script, and voila! a self-installing download?
>
> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in
> the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD.
> (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific
> to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)
Would you happen to know the minimal set of license changes that'd be required to allow a true debian package? I'd love to see this happen for dmd. That plus a package for libraries (both phobos and tango) that works with both dmd and gdc installations would be awesome!
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