Free the DMD backend

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 07:12 +0000, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 03:17:56 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 18:16:33 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> > > It's also that LDC is at front end 2.070 and GDC 2.067 ;););)
> > 
> > 
> > GDC is actively maintained and it would have the latest 
> > features if more developers come, what would happen if it would 
> > be the reference compiler.
> 
> LDC is also no more open than DMD. Go figure!

Is that true. Debian and Fedora package LDC but they will not package
DMD.

GDC has to work within the GCC release framework so I think probably
not a good context for the D reference compiler. 
 
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