On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Walter Bright wrote: > Robert Clipsham wrote: > > Speaking of which, are you able to remove the "The Software was not designed > > to operate after December 31, 1999" sentence at all, or does that require > > you to mess around contacting symantec? Not that anyone reads it, it is kind > > of off putting to see that over a decade later though for anyone who bothers > > reading it :P > > Consider it like the DNA we all still carry around for fish gills!
In all seriousness, the backend license makes dmd look very strange. It threw the lawyers I consulted for a serious loop. At a casual glance it gives the impression of software that's massively out of date and out of touch with the real world. I know that updating it would likely be very painful, but is it just painful or impossible? Is it something that money could solve? I'd chip in to a fund to replace the license with something less... odd. Later, Brad