Hi,

I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source, commercial software? Any license confuses me (english's not my first language).

Thanks in advance

Pascal Guérin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source, commercial
> software? Any license confuses me (english's not my first language).
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 

Yes.

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:50:48 +0000 (UTC), Pascal Guérin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source, commercial software? Any license confuses me (english's not my first language).

Yes.

You can use the DMD software to create anything that you think is reasonable and you do not owe DigitalMars anything. Also, DigitalMars cannot be held responsible for anything you do create.

You cannot distribute the DMD compiler, or other DigitalMars software, without getting explicit permission from DigitalMars first.

Well that's how I read it, but I'm not a lawyer so take care.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
1/09/2005 12:03:02 PM

Pascal Guérin wrote

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source, commercial software?
[...]

No.

-manfred

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Pascal Guérin wrote
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed
>>source, commercial software?
> 
> [...]
> 
> No.
> 
> -manfred

Why not? The topic has come up numerous times before and Walter has always said yes. Am I missing something?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/15376.html

In article <df834o$21gq$1@digitaldaemon.com>, clayasaurus says...
>
>Manfred Nowak wrote:
>> Pascal Guérin wrote
>> 
>> 
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source, commercial software?
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> -manfred
>
>Why not? The topic has come up numerous times before and Walter has always said yes. Am I missing something?
>
>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/15376.html

If walter (isn't he the creator of D) said yes, then i guess it's ok.

"Pascal Guérin" <Pascal_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:df5mpo$31fj$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source,
commercial
> software?

Yes.

To me, if one thing is to hold up the future of D, it's that tricky licence. I couldn't fully understand it myself, and legally some aspects of it would seem hard to enforce (however I'm not a lawyer either so who knows).

How open is the D specification? The compiler itself may have a licence, but am I within my own rights to create and distribute/sell my own compiler for the D language? (this is entirely hypothetical -I don't want to create a compiler! But other people will and this will destroy D as a language if so).

>> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source,
> commercial
>> software?
> Yes.

Walter posted some time ago a rather interesting story about how he knew that C++ would be big- that one didn't have to (pay to) license it to write a compiler for it.  The same is true for D.  The spec is open.

-John Demme

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:47:41 +1000, Rob Saunders wrote:

> To me, if one thing is to hold up the future of D, it's that tricky licence. I couldn't fully understand it myself, and legally some aspects of it would seem hard to enforce (however I'm not a lawyer either so who knows).
> 
> How open is the D specification? The compiler itself may have a licence, but am I within my own rights to create and distribute/sell my own compiler for the D language? (this is entirely hypothetical -I don't want to create a compiler! But other people will and this will destroy D as a language if so).
> 
>>> I'd like to know if D allows to create a proprietary, closed source,
>> commercial
>>> software?
>> Yes.

John Demme wrote:

[...]
>  The same is true for D. The spec is open.

How this? I remeber a post of him, saying, that the specs are plain old copyrighted.

-manfred