grauzone Wrote: > Daniel Keep wrote: > > > > grauzone wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> Now the irony is, that Wlater wouldn't even allow Debian to redistribute > >> a properly packaged dmd... (if Debian wanted to) > > > > Speak ye of the evil Wizard Wlater, previous servant of the dark empire > > of Sym'n'tek? :3 > > Oops. > > > As for the distribution problem, I think it's because Walter *can't* > > allow it to be freely redistributed. > > Why not? It can't be for license reasons?
Sadly, that's exactly why. The backend is under restrictions Walter can't control. For a sillier example, there's a disclaimer that the code is not intended to work after 1999.