[phobos] Tango and the new time lib

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 4/29/10 07:19, Walter Bright wrote:
> Years ago, the lawyers told me that "I've never looked at that source
> code" is an effective defense for parallel evolution. Things get a lot
> harder if one has. That's why I never look at, say, the gcc source code.
>
> What I'd really like to see is Tango move to the Boost license as well.
> This will eliminate this regrettable problem of incompatible licenses,
> which is holding D back. The "two standard libraries" comes up every
> single time D gets mentioned in other forums, and it's a convenient
> excuse people use for not looking further at D.

These two links discuss a possible change of the Tango license:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/786
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701


> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> I'd much rather never get near legal entanglements/issues, but for
>> copyright inifringement to occur there has to be actual copying.
>> Parallel evolution is allowed. Of course, the fundamentally boils down
>> to unvalidatable claims on both sides of the issue.
>>
>> Sigh,
>> Brad
>>