On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:12:46 UTC, Artur Skawina via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Wait what? Do you know a single person who decided to not work
on DMD FE because of kind of formally (but not practically)
non-free backend?
Well, do you think I would have said what I did if this issue
didn't
affect /me/? [1]
...
And, yes, some people really always check licenses, even before
fully
determining what a software project actually is/does. Because
if the
license is problematic then everything else is irrelevant --
the project
simply is unusable, and any time spent looking at it would be
wasted.
That is fortunately not a problem for dmdfe, as boost/gpl
should be
ok for (almost) everyone. But the cost of having to deal with
another
license, for a bundled part, that you're never going to use and
are not
even interested in, is there. The cost of scratching-an-itch
also
becomes higher. Depending on person/context, these costs can be
prohibitive.
artur
I still don't understand. What impact backend license has on you?
In other words, what is potential danger you need to be concerned
about that makes potential contributions too risky? One problem I
am aware of is redistribution issue which is common blocker with
getting into linux distributions. But personal contributions? Can
you explain it in a bit more details?
