== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > Jeremie Pelletier wrote: > > watching wrote: > >> most programmer want use the language and a lot libraries that come > >> with it. instead of gui, db etc. you guys discuss until all > >> prospective users are gone off to use something that lets them do the job > >> > >> maybe it is time to put a large effort into libraries by all the > >> bright people that are arroung d. > > > > The IDE I'm developing is exactly for that purpose, to bring more people > > to D and to make writing D code more convenient. > Exactly, and I'm most pleased to see you and others stepping up to fill > in the gaps. > > The D language doesn't need to come with tons of libraries out of the > > box, its a systems language after all; C++ only comes with the STL and C > > with the stdlib, you need platform headers and third party libraries to > > do something more than a simple console program. > While that's true that C and C++ became successful with minimal > libraries, I think the bar is much higher these days. Looking at the go > library, there's a lot in there we could use in the D library. > http://golang.org/pkg/ > The library is licensed under the > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > meaning we can adapt it to D.
I thought (I'm not 100% sure on either of these counts) that: 1. We don't want anything in Phobos that requires attribution for works distributed exclusively in binary form, even if the license is otherwise permissive. This means we can't use BSD-licensed code in Phobos. 2. Creative commons isn't entirely clear about whether attribution would be required for stuff distributed in pure binary form.
