On 29 April 2010 16:52, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> 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.
I tried hard to get Tango to use the Boost license. More recently, I tried to get the Boost license available as a standard option in the Tango ddoc templates. They wouldn't even do that, and someone modified my "support Boost license" ticket into "support Apache 2.0 license" !!!! I concluded that there is little chance of healing the Tango-Phobos rift, because there are people on the Tango side who do not want unity. Sadly, it only takes one to tango. _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
