"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hrfn8q$262...@digitalmars.com... > > 2. Tango having 2 licenses for different parts will confuse people. > > This is a reasonable concern. My answer is that we can handle such > confusion, as both BSD and Boost licenses are simple and well known. It's > a lot better than the current situation. >
I applaud Walter's whole post here, and would like to especially emphasize my strong agreement on this point in particular. It's absolutely better than the current state, and although I'm neither a member of the Phobos team nor the Tango team (nor a lawyer for that matter), after carefully reading all of the discussion, every side, it is my firm belief that this is the best, surest, clearest path towards solving the whole issue once and for all. I'll explain my thoughts: It is my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, that most of Tango has been cleared by the respective developers for whatever license change is decided. The remaining parts can be clearly labeled in the documentation and source as being "currently under BSD due to an inability to either contact or obtain permission from the author" (or something to that effect, but more thought out than my off-the-top-of-my-head example there). Yes, this *is* a bit inconvenient for both Tango devs and Tango users, *however*, unlike all other suggestions I've seen (I certainly don't intend to badmouth those suggestions, though), it provides a real starting point for a clear path out of the whole mess once-and-for-all: Those "BSD" portions can eventually be phased-out and/or slowly replaced, or with luck, maybe a few of the remaining authors can be contacted/persuaded, and meanwhile, the rest of the D/Phobos/Tango worlds can move on. Again, yes, it would be a pain for everyone, but every other approach seems to be a pain too, if not plain unrealistic. The biggest pain of all, of course, and the longest-lasting pain, would be allowing things to continue in the direction they've been going. Although I'm not really a Tango dev, I have submitted small patches of code in tickets to Tango that did get included, and I've made a few changes to the Wiki. I seriously doubt any of that has been significant enough to qualify me as a developer that would need to give any permission, especially since I've never noticed any request for permission coming my way. But just in case I'm wrong, and maybe there was an email mixup somewhere, anyone can consider this to be my official permission for Tango (or Phobos, for that matter, everyone else willing) to do anything it wants with anything I've submitted (My DSource/Tango username is "Abscissa"). If anything else is needed my email username is "nick1" and the domain is semitwist.com. If there's a problem with that I also have a gmail account named "semitwist".
