== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schvei...@yahoo.com)'s article > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:40:10 -0500, Walter Bright > <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > > grauzone wrote: > >> Ever heard of Tango? > > > > Yes, and I'd be happy to: > > > > 1. have Tango available for D2 and work with Druntime. > > > > 2. move individual packages from Tango to Phobos. This would require > > permission from the author(s) of those packages, as they'd need to be > > relicensed. (Tango uses the BSD license which seems to require notice on > > all binaries compiled with it, this is unacceptable for Phobos.) So far, > > only Sean and Don have been willing to do this. > Tango is dual-licensed. The other license it uses (the Academic Free > License 3.0) allows binary distribution without attribution. > See http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/License > -Steve
Is there a plain English explanation of the Academic Free License anywhere? I read this somewhere on the Tango website before, but I wasn't sure how significant it was, since the Academic Free License is dense, long legalese w/o any plain English explanations. It would be truly great if Tango could be used under a license with permissiveness equivalent to the Boost license. It would help mend a pretty significant rift in the D community that started over a minor technicality.
