DMD license question

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 08:55:51 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-08-07 23:56, Joakim wrote:
>
>> Yes, the idea of the Boost Software License is that you don't 
>> have to
>> ask such questions.  Boost allows you to do anything you want 
>> with the
>> source, whether embedding, modifying, etc. and you don't have 
>> to ask
>> anyone for permission or even mention that you're using 
>> someone else's
>> software to your users, as the BSD advertising clause requires.
>
> That's not entirely true. The license and copyright notice need 
> to be included somewhere if you're distributing the source 
> code. If you're _only_ distributing machine code, the license 
> or copyright need not to be included.

Right, that's what I got at with the second paragraph.  In his 
case, the dmd binary wouldn't require anything, and as long as he 
doesn't strip the copyright/licence notices from the included 
druntime/phobos source, he's fine.  His own D source, of course, 
would be under any license he chose.