On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 13:26:14 UTC, ixid wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 23:08:28 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello, a few engineers at Red Hat are taking a look at using
the D language on the desktop and have reached out to us. They
have created a list of issues. We are on the top-level ones,
and of course would appreciate any community help as well.
https://gist.github.com/ximion/77dda83a9926f892c9a4fa0074d6bf2b
Thanks,
Andrei
What is the story over the ownership of DMD's backend? I
believe Walter's former employer has some stake in it. Has
Walter spoken to them about them donating whatever rights they
have to the D foundation?
You have the answer elements here
https://forum.dlang.org/search?q=backend%20symantec&page=1.
tl;dr: the backend comes from a commercial C++ compiler that was
written by Bright but commercialized by Symantec. This company
still owns the rights.
I'd like to add that the windows version would require another
change so that DMD becomes true FOSS. Unless the 32 bit version
get dropped away, the standard C library, snn.lib, is even not
open-sourced (which is a worst than the backend situation) !
