D library projects : adopting Boost license
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Nov 14 15:01:54 PST 2009
Yigal Chripun wrote:
> This is very important IMO, probably as important as the license itself.
> This is exactly why the GNU project rejects contributions even if they
> are licensed under the GPL unless the the contributer agrees to give
> ownership of the copyright to the FSF (the legal entity for the GNU
> project).
> Almost all open source projects do the same. a notable exception is the
> linux kernel and I think this influenced the decision to not upgrade to
> GPL3.
>
> Does that mean that all of Phobos is under one legal entity - Digital
> Mars I presume? If not, than it really should be and you should require
> the same policy for future contributions.
> I don't want to see each module licensed under a different person
> (Andrei, Sean, You, etc..).
I think you make a very good point.
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