The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> "Sean Kelly" wrote
>>> The number of people that have touched the runtime layer of Tango is
>>> very
>>> limited.  The upper layers are of no concern for this thread.
>>
>> So limited, in fact, that the two Tango members who have not given
>> permission to use their code have never actually touched the runtime. I'm
>> very diligent about the "author" labels in the runtime modules, so this
>> is
>> easy to see.  However, the problem is that there is no way to prove this
>> to Walter, and he refuses to even look at Tango without permission from
>> all of us for fear of "taint."  Thus the impasse.
> 
> Eh?  As far as I know, if you don't put your name on it, you don't own it.

In many (most) countries, writing it means you have copyright. Whether you
put your name there or not is irrelevant. Some have even stronger
protection of the connection between code/work and author.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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