On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 14:09:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
With many freedoms come many responsibilities. The fact that
you can fork the syntax and no one sue you for it (or actively
try to stop you from doing it) does not mean that it won't
harm your public image and overall attitude from some of
community members
I think the D community manages to harm it's own public image
by not encouraging evolution and aiming for the insular cult
image and group think.
If you pick Boost as a license you open up for commercial
closed source use, maybe even encourage it. If you don't want
someone to evolve the language and tailor it to their own ends,
then pick a different license.
It is not about D community but about yourself. Do _you_ want to
be viewed as a valuable member of community? Do _you_ want to
receive on topic responses to your threads? If answer is yes, you
will consider people expectation as much as a license. If answer
is no, well, just tell that and I will stop paying attention to
your posts in NG saving time us both.
Forking a project only harms it if you create totally
incompatible spheres and split the current team of developers.
We add to the eco system. We don't detract from it.
Bullshit. Any kind of forking wastes most valuable resource open
source world can possibly have - developer attention. In limited
form it is compensated by ecnouraged competition and breaking
possible stagantion. When it becomes casual it is a single
biggest killer of all open source projects.
