[PATCH v3 1/14] D: The front-end (DMD) language implementation and license.

[Joseph Myers]

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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com