I have a pretty good feeling Walter would have no problem relicensing the front end if it meant D was included in a major IDE like Eclipse.
-Steve From: Andrew Wiley <[email protected]> To: Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [dmd-beta] [OT] D2 Descent On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it's open source. It's based the DMD frontend, I think it's basically a > Java port of the frontend. But in the long run it's hard to maintain, > constantly need to keep up with DMD and port the changes. > Actually I don't know how that is working out with the licenses. DMD fronten > is GPL and Eclipse is EPL and they're not compatible > Eclipse plugins can and have been published under almost every license. The fact that it's not EPL just means it won't be officially adopted by the Eclipse foundation, even if it ever reaches the level of maturity required. If you want to see the crazy licensing at work, take a look at Subversive, the official Eclipse Subversion plugin. The plugin itself is hosted at Eclipse, but the Subversion connectors that make it actually work have to be hosted off site and installed separately because the licenses don't match. _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
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