On 10/05/12 00:27, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The only thing that isn't fully open source is the dmd backend, and dmd gets more pull requests than druntime and Phobos combined (it's also the project with the biggest bottleneck, because _everything_ goes through Walter rather than a small group of developers). So, I don't think that the license is negatively impacting us at all as far as contributions go. It was having the source in svn rather than in git up on github which was the real problem. We've gotten _way_ more contributions (especially to dmd) ever since we put it all up on github.
Sure. I've said a number of times that I don't think the backend licence is a short-term problem, and that's because I don't see the multiple-avenues-of-contribution aspect as a short-term issue either. The user and contributor base is currently too small for it to be a factor.
I do think, though, that it may be something that starts to bite as the community scales up in size.
