How can D become adopted at my company?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 26/04/12 16:59, Don Clugston wrote:
> And the only one such limitation of freedom which has ever been identified, in
> numerous posts (hundreds!) on this topic, is that the license is not GPL
> compatible and therefore cannot be distributed with (say) OS distributions.

Yes, I appreciate I touched on a sore point and one that must have been 
discussed to death.  I wasn't meaning to add to the noise, but your response to 
my original email was so hostile I felt I had to reply at length to clarify.

I personally don't think it's a minor issue that the reference version of D 
can't be included with open source distributions, but I also think there are 
much more pressing immediate issues than this to resolve in the short term.

By the way, there are plenty of non-GPL-compatible licences that have 
traditionally been considered acceptable by open source distributions -- the 
original Mozilla Public Licence and Apache Licence (new versions have since been 
released which ensure compatibility), at least one variant of the permissive 
BSD/MIT licences, and probably others.  It's whether the licence implements the 
"four freedoms" that matters.