Mike Parker wrote:
Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
Daniel Keep wrote:
Walter has a test suite for DMD, and there's the huge one on (I think)
puremagic.
OH NO! All our programs will stop compiling on Jan 1 2000... wait...
I think the existence of these forums and the bugtracker says otherwise.
Relax. I'm not saying that those things are true, but they ARE in the
license. And I'm saying that if everything in that license were true,
those
are the lines I'd worry about.
You've got to admit, it's a pretty strange license.
IIRC, Walter said that's the legacy Symantec license and he can't change
it.
Who is this Symantec entity that's preventing D from being truely open
source and forcing Walter to put crap in the license?
Are they the same Symantec at http://www.symantec.com/ ?
Anyway, what portions of the backend are from Symantec?
How feasibly would it be to rewrite that portion as free software (in
the GNU sense)?
