I agree, and I also find their claim rather strange. I don't think they can prevent others from creating code with a similar interface to theirs. (If that were the case, the Wine and Mono devs would be in big trouble.)
So that leaves the code. Unless SHOO has copy-pasted the code from Tango, I cannot see how their claim holds any water. There are only so many ways to figure out which day of the month it is. -Lars On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 07:52 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: > That's effing ridiculous. The D community could really do without > this kind of behavior. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > One of the Tango developers called me today. There are 5 developers > > of the Tango time library, and they feel that the Phobos time lib > > submission is close enough to theirs to be considered an > > infringement on their license. The Tango license is the BSD license, > > which does not permit others changing the license, such as to Boost > > which is the Phobos license. > > > > I am not qualified to compare the two source code bases and make a > > legal determination if there is infringement or not. And quite > > frankly, I don't want to split legal hairs about it against the > > Tango developers' wishes. I've invited the Tango devs to subscribe > > to this mailing list, and I hope we can come to a resolution: > > > > 1. I think the best solution would be for Tango to relicense the > > time module under the Boost license, which would require the > > agreement of the five time module developers. Then, the Phobos > > version would include them as authors and they'd share in the > > copyright. > > > > 2. Next would be if the Tango developers who do agree to the Boost > > license would identify their contributions, those would get > > authorship & copyright credit, etc. Tango developers who do not > > agree would identify code they consider infringing, and that code > > would be removed from the Phobos version, and possibly reimplemented > > by someone who has not looked at the Tango version. > > > > > > The bottom line is the Tango devs should get the final say on what > > is infringing and what isn't, and we won't relicense infringing code > > into Phobos without their explicit permission. > > _______________________________________________ > > phobos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
