Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

Wed May 9 13:00:45 PDT 2012

On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 19:58:14 UTC, Michaël Larouche wrote:
>  What if I want to submit a change or a fix to the langage that 
> require to change the backend too ?

There's nothing stopping that right now!

The only thing the backend license really prohibits is
distributing it yourself.

Doing a personal fork, modifying it, and doing a pull
request or a patch back upstream happens in practice
somewhat normally.