On 4/29/10 07:19, Walter Bright wrote:
Years ago, the lawyers told me that "I've never looked at that source
code" is an effective defense for parallel evolution. Things get a lot
harder if one has. That's why I never look at, say, the gcc source code.
What I'd really like to see is Tango move to the Boost license as well.
This will eliminate this regrettable problem of incompatible licenses,
which is holding D back. The "two standard libraries" comes up every
single time D gets mentioned in other forums, and it's a convenient
excuse people use for not looking further at D.
These two links discuss a possible change of the Tango license:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/786
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701
Brad Roberts wrote:
I'd much rather never get near legal entanglements/issues, but for
copyright inifringement to occur there has to be actual copying.
Parallel evolution is allowed. Of course, the fundamentally boils down
to unvalidatable claims on both sides of the issue.
Sigh,
Brad
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