I recalled now that the DMD front en is also licensed under the Artistic License (see one of my other posts).
On 10 feb 2011, at 14:55, Steve Schveighoffer wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > dmd-beta mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta -- /Jacob Carlborg
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