I have started an initiative to improve D packaging scheme and got an agreement with dmd package maintainer in Linux to separate tools (primarily rdmd, but I see no reason to not include others) into separate compiler-agnostic package. That will greatly simplify further simultaneous deployment of multiple D compilers.

One issue I have noticed though is that some sources there does not have license set and, obviously, official repository maintainers won't accept anything like that.

It would have helped if authors of related tools added any typical open-source license to them. So far I can see catdoc, detab, dman, findtags, told - so it is Walter with tiny bit of Andrei :)

Thanks!

P.S. Possible enhancement proposal is to add default license all sources in /tools are subject to unless stated otherwise, should help long term maintenance.

Also, is rdmd license custom one as it looks or some unknown to me but existing? Does not look like BSD or MIT or Boost. It is very permissive so no issues here, but I am quite curious.

On 4/2/13 8:35 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> Also, is rdmd license custom one as it looks or some unknown to me but
> existing? Does not look like BSD or MIT or Boost. It is very permissive
> so no issues here, but I am quite curious.

Boost should be it. I must have forgotten to add the license to the file.

Andrei

On 4/2/2013 5:16 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> It would have helped if authors of related tools added any typical open-source
> license to them. So far I can see catdoc, detab, dman, findtags, told - so it is
> Walter with tiny bit of Andrei :)

These should all be boost licensed.

On Tuesday, 2 April 2013 at 22:30:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/2/2013 5:16 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> It would have helped if authors of related tools added any typical open-source
>> license to them. So far I can see catdoc, detab, dman, findtags, told - so it is
>> Walter with tiny bit of Andrei :)
>
> These should all be boost licensed.

Please accept this pull then https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/55