Le 23/10/2012 15:12, Era Scarecrow a écrit :
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 11:46:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 23 October 2012 12:34, jerro <[email protected]> wrote:
Perhaps FSF would help or some other open-source funding organisation?
Wouldn't FSF have issues with the reference implementation's back end
not being free software?
We aren't celebrating dmd here, we are celebrating the D programming
language, which is a F/OSS project.
I don't think FSF would be that picky. As Iain said, it's about the D
language which is an open spec, and progress in the community as a
whole. Afterall, if we were getting together to talk about AWK, they may
contribute even considering a free version (Gawk) is available, and it
isn't about which version you run at all. But the spec not being ANSI
managed may provide some problems.
I may get this wrong, but my understanding FSF's view (and spirit
thereof) is about keeping the freedom; IE: Learning from eachother (be
it mistakes or otherwise), enable the willingness to fix (or offer
fixes), and allow you to improve any given piece of software with no
personal or financial gain from it, out of only the love and want to
help the community as a whole.
I worked with FSF several times, and they usually are really picky about
process and have pretty strong criteria on almost everything you can
think of :D
They usually are not the easiest organization to work with.
