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Re: [PATCH v3 1/14] D: The front-end (DMD) language implementation and license.
On 3 October 2017 at 23:36, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Jeff Law wrote:
>
>> /* Copyright (c) 2010-2014 by Digital Mars
>> * All Rights Reserved, written by Walter Bright
>> * http://www.digitalmars.com
>> * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
>> * (See accompanying file LICENSE or copy at
>> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
>>
>> If the code was assigned to the FSF in 2011, then the FSF would have
>> ownership of the code. And the FSF would be the only entity that could
>> change the license (which according to your message changed to Boost in
>> 2014). So something seems wrong here.
>
> The standard FSF assignment would allow the contributor to distribute
> their own code under such terms as they see fit.
>
Walter, would you mind clarifying details of your assignment? Was it a
standard assignment? Did you request for any amendments?
Jeff, I'm no legal, so I can't comment on it. Maybe there's someone
from the FSF who be able to confirm?
I'll cc in Andrei as well, so the D language foundation is in on this.
Regards,
Iain.