[dmd-beta] [OT] D2 Descent

[Jacob Carlborg]

I recalled now that the DMD front en is also licensed under the Artistic License (see one of my other posts).

On 10 feb 2011, at 14:55, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:

> I have a pretty good feeling Walter would have no problem relicensing the front end if it meant D was included in a major IDE like Eclipse.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> From: Andrew Wiley <debio264 at gmail.com>
> To: Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <dmd-beta at puremagic.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [dmd-beta] [OT] D2 Descent
> 
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> > Yes, it's open source. It's based the DMD frontend, I think it's basically a
> > Java port of the  frontend. But in the long run it's hard to maintain,
> > constantly need to keep up with DMD and port the changes.
> > Actually I don't know how that is working out with the licenses. DMD fronten
> > is GPL and Eclipse is EPL and they're not compatible
> >
> 
> Eclipse plugins can and have been published under almost every
> license. The fact that it's not EPL just means it won't be officially
> adopted by the Eclipse foundation, even if it ever reaches the level
> of maturity required.
> If you want to see the crazy licensing at work, take a look at
> Subversive, the official Eclipse Subversion plugin. The plugin itself
> is hosted at Eclipse, but the Subversion connectors that make it
> actually work have to be hosted off site and installed separately
> because the licenses don't match.
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/Jacob Carlborg

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