Is license.txt file in DMD builds up to date?

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 31 14:00:08 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 19:51:49 UTC, Username wrote:
> Hello, I've tried to find some information about the license 
> file for DMD in windows builds(I'm not sure if it's used for 
> other platforms). I'm new to D, literally just downloaded the 
> compiler, but as far as I understand the licensing of DMD looks 
> like this: runtime, phobos and compiler frontend is Boost 
> licensed. And compiler backend is also boost licensed but this 
> still does not apply to stable build(DMD 2.074.0),as the source 
> files of backend provided with that build still contain the old 
> custom license. But license.txt file bundled with windows 
> build(probably others too) in stable, beta and nightly version 
> states that: runtime and phobos is boost licensed, compiler 
> frontend is under GPL license, and also contains the custom 
> license text for compiler backend. License.txt file is located 
> in dlang/installer repo ( 
> https://github.com/dlang/installer/blob/master/create_dmd_release/extras/all/dmd2/license.txt ). Is license.txt file just outdated or is it that binary builds are licensed differently(I'm not really licensing expert, could this be caused by the bundled libcurl.dll or the windbg tools?)? I'm sorry if this was answered already but I couldn't find any info about this specific file.

This may answer your question:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/och98k$1puh$1@digitalmars.com


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