Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
You mess with it so you can use code from other projects that may help
you make DMD a better product :)
It's not like there's no gain from reading/using others' code.
One reason not to do it, however, is the taint issue. There's a
possibility that BSD compiler code you read has similarities to code you
may write in Phobos, and if that's the case, the owner of the BSD code
may request that you put their BSD license in Phobos. We've seen first
hand how ridiculously little evidence can provoke such an accusation.
Twice the issue of possible infringement/taint by Phobos developers on Tango
code has come up. If this comes up among friends, it can definitely come up from
people who do not have our best interests at heart.
With the Boost license, this is not even a potential issue, nor is it a rock in
our shoe causing aggravation, mistrust, and bad feelings. I want, and think it
best for D, that people be free to use the Phobos code however they want to for
whatever they want to, without issue, argument, or worrying about what binary
attribution means.
