Jason House wrote:
grauzone Wrote:
Daniel Keep wrote:
grauzone wrote:
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Now the irony is, that Wlater wouldn't even allow Debian to redistribute
a properly packaged dmd... (if Debian wanted to)
Speak ye of the evil Wizard Wlater, previous servant of the dark empire
of Sym'n'tek? :3
Oops.
As for the distribution problem, I think it's because Walter *can't*
allow it to be freely redistributed.
Why not? It can't be for license reasons?
Sadly, that's exactly why. The backend is under restrictions Walter can't
control. For a sillier example, there's a disclaimer that the code is not
intended to work after 1999.
Is that really so? I would have guessed that this restriction is only
for redistributing the backend source. I mean, when dmd still came
without the backend source, it was shipped without the backend license.
