Tim Matthews wrote:
hasen wrote:
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/ ?
Some of this info is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec#Founding
It really shouldn't be a problem. Backend is not free(dom) but frontend
is gpl so can be used with any other backend no problem as long as the
other backend respect the frontend's gpl. Free enough frontend. How free
do you need in that truely open source statement?
How feasibly would it be to rewrite that portion as free software
Very and is exactly what ldc is http://dsource.org/projects/ldc
OK, there is/was also GDC, but I heard it's kinda died.
That's not my point though.
I think that the official/reference implementation needs to be
completely open-source.
