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

[Walter Bright]

On 10/5/2017 3:59 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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?

I'm good with FSF owning their copy and it being under the GPL and Digital Mars 
owning our copy and it being Boost licensed.

> 
> 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.
> 
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