On 04/26/2012 10:59 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
No, I don't mean "GPL compatible". I'd be perfectly happy for the DMD
backend to be released under a GPL-incompatible free/open source licence
like the CDDL.
The problem is not GPL compatibility but whether sufficient freedoms are
granted to distribute and modify sources.
And the only one such limitation of freedom which has ever been
identified, in numerous posts (hundreds!) on this topic, is that the
license is not GPL compatible and therefore cannot be distributed with
(say) OS distributions.
I don't understand your fixation on the GPL, as even a GPL-incompatible
license would allow it to be distributed on FOSS operating systems like
Debian or Fedora. The important principle, which you've been ignoring
for some reason, is that you can redistribute the source along with
modifications. This is not special to GPL, and is fundamental both to
open source and Free Software.
