(Yes, I am aware of "DMD as a library".)

Still, would it be legal to embed a dmd build environment into a binary to unzip it at run time to compile code as needed? To compile a shared library to dynamically load, from source code that is also embedded?L Poor person's JIT compilation? :)

I am currently implementing it without the dmd part. Curious about whether dmd part would be legal or not.

Ali

P.S. What about the 'unzip' program? May I embed that as well? The whole OS? Ok, I started having too much fun... :)

On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:18:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> (Yes, I am aware of "DMD as a library".)
>
> Still, would it be legal to embed a dmd build environment into a binary to unzip it at run time to compile code as needed? To compile a shared library to dynamically load, from source code that is also embedded?L Poor person's JIT compilation? :)
>
> I am currently implementing it without the dmd part. Curious about whether dmd part would be legal or not.
>
> Ali
>
> P.S. What about the 'unzip' program? May I embed that as well? The whole OS? Ok, I started having too much fun... :)

It's all boost licensed, right? Should be fine because of that (best leave a copyright notice just to be sure)

Unzip is probably GPL'ed if it's from Linux, but could be distributed without source of unmodified (if your program only works with a specific GPL'ed program then it can be in violation of the GPL to not publish it's source but it's just a archive manager)

On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:53:16 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:18:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> (Yes, I am aware of "DMD as a library".)
>>
>> Still, would it be legal to embed a dmd build environment into a binary to unzip it at run time to compile code as needed? To compile a shared library to dynamically load, from source code that is also embedded?L Poor person's JIT compilation? :)
>>
>> I am currently implementing it without the dmd part. Curious about whether dmd part would be legal or not.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> P.S. What about the 'unzip' program? May I embed that as well? The whole OS? Ok, I started having too much fun... :)
>
> It's all boost licensed, right? Should be fine because of that (best leave a copyright notice just to be sure)

Boost requires the whole license to be available unless you only distribute a pure machine executable.

On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:18:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Still, would it be legal to embed a dmd build environment into a binary to unzip it at run time to compile code as needed?

yup

> P.S. What about the 'unzip' program? May I embed that as well?

Phobos' std.zip is good enough to make your own!

On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 21:02:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:53:16 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 October 2020 at 20:18:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> It's all boost licensed, right? Should be fine because of that (best leave a copyright notice just to be sure)
>
> Boost requires the whole license to be available unless you only distribute a pure machine executable.

Good to know. I normally include copyright and licence notices anyway just to be sure (and I think a project should display what went into it, like sausages)