On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:02:27 +0900, SHOO wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu さんは書きました: >> On 04/29/2010 09:39 AM, SHOO wrote: >>> Andrei Alexandrescu さんは書きました: >>>> Thanks! You are now a Phobos developer. >>> I'm happy to join member of Phobos developer! >>> >>> > Unfortunately you cannot commit >>>> your changes to std.date because it infringes on Tango's license. >>>> >>>> Andrei >>> >>> What did I infringe the license of Tango for? For interfaces? For >>> implements? >>> I've written the codes without the intention. Please tell me the >>> points that are the problem. >> >> I don't know other details except that a Tango representative >> explicitly warned us about the potential infringement yesterday. You >> may want to check with the Tango team. I am sorry for the >> disappointment this must entail to you. >> >> The current direction considered for std.date is to take the design of >> Boost.Date_Time as a starting point. >> >> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/date_time.html >> >> >> Andrei > > Hmm... > OK, I'll try to rewrite it. > I'll thoroughly eliminate codes that resembles Tango's one by the next > contribution. And I intend to refer to boost::time. > > Unfortunately, I cannot reply for a while so that there is a schedule. > > Bye.
Hi, have you thought about just asking the authors of the Tango code in question? I would imagine they would say that they only see a minor resemblance in the api and asking wouldn't even be necessary from their point of view. But since W/Phobos is very copyright sensitive, I'm sure they will give the permission.