Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#, JS, AS, Perl and D

Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by profquail on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:28AM (#5888347)

This is a really interesting project. However...

It's licensed under GPLv3 -- in my experience, that's an instant turnoff for most .NET (C#/F#/VB.NET) developers. If you changed the license to something like Apache 2.0, I think you'd get much more interest; not only new users, but new contributors too.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by 3825 on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:29AM (#5888354)

What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by wes-exp on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:05AM (#5888655)

GPL (2 and 3) is completely hostile to commercial (i.e. proprietary) use. In a big middle finger to business, v2 even describes a hypothetical businessperson as "Ty Coon, President of Vice".

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by danabramov on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:45AM (#5888404)

I think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by profquail on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:55AM (#5888441)

Yes, that's what I meant.

Most -- nearly all -- major open-source projects written in C# (or other .NET languages) are permissively licensed. Yes, that means people could just grab the code and use it in their own closed-source projects without giving back; but, as far as I've seen, most devs are happy to contribute back to the projects they use in whatever way they can.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by rbehrends on Sunday June 16, 2013 @12:48PM (#5888998)

It's not just commercial use. Non-permissive open source licenses are also frequently incompatible with one another [1].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by stephth on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:36PM (#5889598)

Does it matter here from a user standpoint? The compiler is strictly licensed but the user's work - Ć code and generated code - shouldn't be tied to any predefined license, or am I missing something?

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