[D-runtime] druntime license and copypasta bugs

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sat Sep 3 13:47:53 PDT 2011


For runtime and Phobos I think ts always the original author.  Not so with GCC code though, for example. 

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On Sep 3, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Friday, September 02, 2011 10:40:31 Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> Actually, it doesn't even need to be that verbose.
>>> 
>>> /**
>>> * The runtime module exposes information specific to the D runtime code.
>>> *
>>> * Copyright: Copyright 2005 - 2011
>>> * License: $(WEB www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0).
>>> * Authors: Sean Kelly
>>> * Source: $(DRUNTIMESRC core/_runtime.d)
>>> */
>> 
>> The copyright owner's name must be in the copyright line.  A module may have
>> multiple authors, and it's possible (though unlikely) that none of those
>> authors are the copyright owner.
> 
> That's easy enough to fix, but who's the copyright owner if not the authors? 
> Digital Mars?
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
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