• white_man (1/1) May 21 2009 Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course wi...
• Daniel Keep (10/11) May 21 2009 It depends. If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
• Spacen Jasset (4/21) May 21 2009 Presumably you can modify and distribute LDC (under the GPL terms if it

white_man <nospam nospam.com> writes:

Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with full
information about authors. Does it legal? 

Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:

white_man wrote:
 Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with
full information about authors. Does it legal? 

It depends.  If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
identified as being licensed under GPL [1]), then you can distribute the
modified front-end.

However, if you modify the back end, you cannot redistribute those
files.  You also cannot distribute a compiled version.

To be safe, it's probably best to just distribute any changes you make
as a patch.

  -- Daniel


[1] There's another license involved, but I forget what it's called.

Spacen Jasset <spacenjasset yahoo.co.uk> writes:

Daniel Keep wrote:
 white_man wrote:
 Does it possible to modify DMD and publish it in that form. Of course with
full information about authors. Does it legal? 

 
 It depends.  If you ONLY modify the front-end (front-end files are
 identified as being licensed under GPL [1]), then you can distribute the
 modified front-end.
 
 However, if you modify the back end, you cannot redistribute those
 files.  You also cannot distribute a compiled version.
 
 To be safe, it's probably best to just distribute any changes you make
 as a patch.
 
   -- Daniel
 
 
 [1] There's another license involved, but I forget what it's called.

Presumably you can modify and distribute LDC (under the GPL terms if it 
is GPL. I forget)?

LDC = Front End + LLVM