Re: DMD Modifications

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Keep 

white_man wrote:
 Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with 
 full information about authors. Does it legal? 

It depends.  If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
identified as being licensed under GPL [1]), then you can distribute the
modified front-end.

However, if you modify the back end, you cannot redistribute those
files.  You also cannot distribute a compiled version.

To be safe, it's probably best to just distribute any changes you make
as a patch.

  -- Daniel


[1] There's another license involved, but I forget what it's called.

Re: DMD Modifications

2009-05-21 Thread Spacen Jasset 

Daniel Keep wrote:

white_man wrote:
Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with full information about authors. Does it legal? 


It depends.  If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
identified as being licensed under GPL [1]), then you can distribute the
modified front-end.

However, if you modify the back end, you cannot redistribute those
files.  You also cannot distribute a compiled version.

To be safe, it's probably best to just distribute any changes you make
as a patch.

  -- Daniel


[1] There's another license involved, but I forget what it's called.
Presumably you can modify and distribute LDC (under the GPL terms if it 
is GPL. I forget)?


LDC = Front End + LLVM