Network I/O and streaming in D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Robert Jacques wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:26:51 -0400, Walter Bright 
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Justin Johansson wrote:
>>>> Yes, I agree that libcurl might be a choice as a backend.  Is
>>>> its license okay?
>>>>   From http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html
>>>
>>> Looks ok to me.
>>
>> It doesn't look okay for Phobos to me. The MIT/new BSD license is not 
>> BOOST compatible. In particular: "this permission notice appear in all 
>> copies" which includes binary copies.
> 
> I emailed Daniel Stenberg, the author, about that. His reply is:
> 
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> 
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>  > Hello, I'm Walter Bright, the lead developer on the D programming 
> language. libcurl is the best networking library available, and we'd 
> like to base the D runtime networking support on it. The only issue, 
> though, is the clause in the license "provided that the above copyright 
> notice and this permission notice appear in all copies". Does this 
> include binaries? Or does it just apply to the source code?
> 
> Thanks for your interest in libcurl and your question!
> 
> The copyright notice is only for the source code, and possibly in the 
> documentation. It is NOT for the binaries.
> 
> I hope you'll find libcurl to do what you need, and I hope you'll 
> discover that the curl-library is a fine list for help and assistance if 
> or when you're in need!
> 
> 

Awesome squared!

Andrei