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Question about compiler licensing
Jan 18, 2015
Ryan
Jan 18, 2015
Walter Bright
Jan 18, 2015
Ryan
Jan 18, 2015
Ryan
January 18, 2015
Hello,
I tried to contact Digital Mars by email but the contact page does not work nor do most of the other forums for me. Maybe I am using them wrong? Anyway, I downloaded the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler and fell in love with it because of how light weight it is (not 300+ MB!).

I am working on a project which needs to be able to compile c/c++ code so I felt this compiler would be a great fit. However it says I need to request a license? How do I go about doing this? My project is commercial, but I am obviously not just reselling the compiler as my own.

Thanks a lot,
Ryan
January 18, 2015
On 1/17/2015 7:54 PM, Ryan wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried to contact Digital Mars by email but the contact page does not work nor
> do most of the other forums for me. Maybe I am using them wrong? Anyway, I
> downloaded the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler and fell in love with it because of
> how light weight it is (not 300+ MB!).
>
> I am working on a project which needs to be able to compile c/c++ code so I felt
> this compiler would be a great fit. However it says I need to request a license?
> How do I go about doing this? My project is commercial, but I am obviously not
> just reselling the compiler as my own.

You already have a license to ship code compiled with the compiler. An additional license would only be needed if you wanted to ship the compiler itself. If you need that, I can get you very reasonable terms.

January 18, 2015
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 08:48:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/17/2015 7:54 PM, Ryan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I tried to contact Digital Mars by email but the contact page does not work nor
>> do most of the other forums for me. Maybe I am using them wrong? Anyway, I
>> downloaded the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler and fell in love with it because of
>> how light weight it is (not 300+ MB!).
>>
>> I am working on a project which needs to be able to compile c/c++ code so I felt
>> this compiler would be a great fit. However it says I need to request a license?
>> How do I go about doing this? My project is commercial, but I am obviously not
>> just reselling the compiler as my own.
>
> You already have a license to ship code compiled with the compiler. An additional license would only be needed if you wanted to ship the compiler itself. If you need that, I can get you very reasonable terms.

Yes I am looking to ship the compiler itself, thanks.
January 18, 2015
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:32:16 UTC, Ryan wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 08:48:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/17/2015 7:54 PM, Ryan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I tried to contact Digital Mars by email but the contact page does not work nor
>>> do most of the other forums for me. Maybe I am using them wrong? Anyway, I
>>> downloaded the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler and fell in love with it because of
>>> how light weight it is (not 300+ MB!).
>>>
>>> I am working on a project which needs to be able to compile c/c++ code so I felt
>>> this compiler would be a great fit. However it says I need to request a license?
>>> How do I go about doing this? My project is commercial, but I am obviously not
>>> just reselling the compiler as my own.
>>
>> You already have a license to ship code compiled with the compiler. An additional license would only be needed if you wanted to ship the compiler itself. If you need that, I can get you very reasonable terms.
>
> Yes I am looking to ship the compiler itself, thanks.

What are the terms? Thanks a bunch,
Ryan