On 25/04/12 17:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On 25/04/12 16:58, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 14:05:14 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Python was widely used before Google "support". And I think Haskell has
enjoyed corporate support for a lot of time.
And who's behind PHP?
... but importantly, Python and PHP (and Ruby, and Haskell, and others)
were fully open source in their reference implementations from the
get-go, or at least from very early on. This isn't just important in
itself, but has a multiplicative impact with inclusion in the Linux
distros, BSD's, etc. which make up the server infrastructure of the web.
It also enables all sorts of 3rd-party suppliers who feel comfortable
including the software in their hosting provision because they can be
certain they won't in future suffer from the commercial constraints of a
proprietary supplier.
D's reference implementation _still_ isn't fully open source -- only the
frontend -- and the available open source compilers lag behind the
reference.
<rant>
"open source" is a horrible, duplicitous term. Really what you mean is
"the license is not GPL compatible".
</rant>
Based on my understanding of the legal situation with Symantec, the
backend CANNOT become GPL compatible. Stop using the word "still", it
will NEVER happen.
