Migrating dmd to D?

[Era Scarecrow]

On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 03:56:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:46:57AM +0100, Denis Koroskin wrote:
> [...]
>> Anyway, feel free to take the sources and attach whatever 
>> license you want to it.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think copyright works like that. You 
> (the author) must be the one who licenses it. Any license 
> applied by others will most probably be invalid, since they are 
> not the real copyright owner, and, in the case of actual legal 
> disputes, such a license will be indefensible.

  You can transfer ownership via written letter (not electronic) 
to a company/person I believe, various utilities of the GNU suite 
are donated that way.

  To my understanding, anything published on the internet without 
a license is basically informational. You can read it to 
understand it, but you can't compile or use it without a 
license/permission. The license can grant specific permissions to 
use (copy, modify, redistribute, etc), and terms of use.

  When in doubt consider GPL/LGPL, which will protect you in the 
case the malfunction/damages (for whatever reason, marked 'as 
is', no warranty or support, or refunds). Not sure of other 
licenses though, haven't read into them too much.