Re: dmd D Programming Language compiler

[Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com>]

On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> Apologies for the late reply.
>
> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>
>> The D programming language compiler has been called dmd since about
>> 2000 or so. In order to avoid confusion, may I request that the Gnu
>> dmd ("Daemons-managing Daemon") change its acronym?
> For the record, GNU’s dmd has been around since ~2003¹.
>
> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
> We’re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more discussion
> among developers.

Thanks for considering this. I appreciate it.

>
> BTW, it is unfortunate that Digital Mars’ compiler back-end denies² its
> users essential freedoms to help each other (through redistribution), to
> adjust the code as they see fit, and to gain collective control of it
> and improve it.  I hope you will reconsider this choice and choose a
> free software license.

I agree, but Symantec does not agree with changing the license, so I'm stuck 
(yes, I've tried). On the other hand, the gdc and ldc D compilers are based on 
open source back ends.