Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub + Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd back-end is supposedly proprietary.

On 5/5/2014 4:05 PM, Etienne wrote:
> Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a
> package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub +
> Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd back-end
> is supposedly proprietary.

Go here (with JS on):

http://www.walterbright.com/

Use the "Send email to Walter Bright" and request permission. He's known to be cool about this sort of thing. IIUC, the whole "permission" thing is just a formality necessitated by the backend's former life as part of various companies's commercial compilers.

On 5/5/2014 4:26 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> Use the "Send email to Walter Bright" and request permission. He's known
> to be cool about this sort of thing. IIUC, the whole "permission" thing
> is just a formality necessitated by the backend's former life as part of
> various companies's commercial compilers.
>

Ahem, "...necessitated by **DMD's backend's** former life..."

On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 20:05:09 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub + Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd back-end is supposedly proprietary.

The Windows installer does not include DMD in itself, it just downloads the zip file and sets it up. You could go the same way. This way, you don't need to get permission from WB.

On 2014-05-05 18:21, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 20:05:09 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>> Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a
>> package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub
>> + Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd
>> back-end is supposedly proprietary.
>
> The Windows installer does not include DMD in itself, it just downloads
> the zip file and sets it up. You could go the same way. This way, you
> don't need to get permission from WB.

Ok, so if the zip from dlang.org downloads is downloaded and unpacked on the computer automatically it's all good?

On 5/5/2014 3:41 PM, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On 2014-05-05 18:21, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 20:05:09 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>>> Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a
>>> package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub
>>> + Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd
>>> back-end is supposedly proprietary.
>>
>> The Windows installer does not include DMD in itself, it just downloads
>> the zip file and sets it up. You could go the same way. This way, you
>> don't need to get permission from WB.
>
> Ok, so if the zip from dlang.org downloads is downloaded and unpacked on the
> computer automatically it's all good?

Yes, and you'll also be getting the latest that way, rather than having to constantly update your installer.