On 04/29/2010 01:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
It looks like the Tango devs are pretty much settled on BSD-only with
some hack to get around the binary attribution thing:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1701
The problem with the hack is everyone trying to use the library
professionally will (if one is lucky) ask about the binary attribution
thing, and one would have to convince them that the hack takes care of
it. This puts a never ending burden on the team.
If one is unlucky, they'll just avoid the library because of that
license, and you'll never hear from them about the lost opportunity.
Those options are bad and worse, hence changing the license is a much
more attractive proposition going forward.
OTish: What would be funny is if the tango team didn't take the pains to
ensure the compiler didn't strip the string out during optimization. Or
compress it. Or obfusticate it.
