The dmd compiler license

[hasen]

Tim Matthews wrote:
> hasen wrote:
> 
>>
>> Who is this Symantec entity that's preventing D from being truely open 
>> source and forcing Walter to put crap in the license?
>>
>> Are they the same Symantec at http://www.symantec.com/ ?
> 
> 
> Some of this info is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mars
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec#Founding
> 
> It really shouldn't be a problem. Backend is not free(dom) but frontend 
> is gpl so can be used with any other backend no problem as long as the 
> other backend respect the frontend's gpl. Free enough frontend. How free 
> do you need in that truely open source statement?
> 
> 
>> How feasibly would it be to rewrite that portion as free software
> 
> Very and is exactly what ldc is http://dsource.org/projects/ldc

OK, there is/was also GDC, but I heard it's kinda died.

That's not my point though.

I think that the official/reference implementation needs to be 
completely open-source.