On 2013-11-26 20:13, Brad Anderson wrote:
If I remember correctly Walter didn't want to distribute in the dmd zip anything that wasn't boost licensed which is why curl on Windows comes as a separate download. zlib is a notable exception but I seem to recall Walter regretted including zlib.
The zip already contains tools which the source code isn't available. Like "shell", "dumpobj" and "obj2asm". But I guess Walter, DigitalMars or Symantec has created those.
I can't remember off the top of my head if libcurl's license allows it to be statically linked with a boost licensed library but that would certainly simplify things for end users (but complicate the building of phobos a bit).
Walter contacted the author and asked about that, here's the post: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/i0dlde$59$1...@digitalmars.com#post-i0eaoc:2410bs:241:40digitalmars.com -- /Jacob Carlborg