"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:qlxeqfqyzlezwqerr...@forum.dlang.org... > On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 19:58:14 UTC, Michaël Larouche wrote: >> What if I want to submit a change or a fix to the langage that require >> to change the backend too ? > > There's nothing stopping that right now! > > The only thing the backend license really prohibits is > distributing it yourself. >
Even that's not entirely true (and it does annoy me a little that it keeps getting repeated). The only thing it prohibits is distributing it yourself *without prior approval*. And considering that Walter's always been extremely reasonable about granting such requests (since the prior approval is only required because *his* hands are tied on that matter by...uhh...was it Borland?), it's really a non-issue. > Doing a personal fork, modifying it, and doing a pull > request or a patch back upstream happens in practice > somewhat normally.