ip claims?

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 12:59:37 PST 2007


Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>
>>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Jakob Praher wrote:
>>>> I am interesting in adopting D for some kind of system programming. I
>>>> have used the LLVM infrastructure and would like to play with D.
>>>>
>>>> What puzzles me is the following line in the url
>>>> "http://www.digitalmars.com/d/":
>>>>
>>>> Note: all D users agree that by downloading and using D, or reading the
>>>> D specs, they will explicitly identify any claims to intellectual
>>>> property rights with a copyright or patent notice in any posted or
>>>> emailed feedback sent to Digital Mars.
>>>>
>>>> What does that mean?
>>>> If I would like to work with the D language what would that mean to 
>>>> me as a developer?
>>>
>>> It means you must be upfront about any IP claims on ideas and code 
>>> posted here or sent to Digital Mars. If you patented or will patent 
>>> an idea submitted here, say so. If you wish to retain copyright, say so.
>>
>> err ... why couldn't the note on the website be a bit more clear?
> 
> It is syntactically correct, but it takes a while to parse, and the 
> important clause is at the end. IMO, make it clear you are talking about 
> code submitted to the NG or Digital Mars in the beginning of the statement.

Well sure it's legally correct .. (or well, who knows, maybe not .. I'm 
not a lawyer), but that's exactly my point; why does it have to be hard 
to understand if it needs to be legally correct?



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