The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

Chris R. Miller lordSaurontheGreat at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 20:16:53 PDT 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Dozens of people have worked on Tango. Tracking who owns the code is
>> nontrivial, as is contacting some of them. It might be impossible to
>> get a license change cleared.
> 
> I understand that. But my understanding (I am not a lawyer) of copyright
> law is that a couple of lines of code are not copyrightable. But major
> contributors to Tango should be reachable.

I too am not a lawyer, but I was under the impression that contributions
to Tango are still property of Tango and subject to the global Tango
license.

Maybe someone should ask a lawyer...  there's a good radio
phone-a-lawyer guy in my area I could call.

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