Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:47:37AM +0100, Alexander Pánek wrote:
This
library is available licensed under BSD, which basically means you can
do whatever you please with it, as long as you don???t remove the
copyright of the original authors.
I think that's an unreasonable demand in a standard library. Incorporating
BSD code into phobos, any amount of it, requires that every D program
that is ever written to include their copyright notice, since phobos
is redistributed in binary form with every D program.
I agree, requiring to include copyright with every binary distribution
is unacceptable for a standard library. But...
Tango is also available under the Academic Free License. Which I don't
understand, despite having read through the ten page explanation of it.
Specifically, you're allow to change it to "any license of your choice
that does not contradict the terms and conditions, including Licensor's
reserved rights and remedies, in this Academic Free License;"
But what does that mean? Which licenses does it include? Does it include
the zlib license? I presume not.
In which case Andrei and Walter's position is entirely justified. If
that is correct, I will cease contributing to Tango.
Someone, _please_ tell me I'm wrong.
That's a pain to hobbyists and might be a roadblock to use the
language professionally.
As far as I know, the entire phobos library is currently public domain
or zlib license, which is basically just public domain written out
explicitly. That's the way it should remain.
