Official compiler

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 22:19 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
> 
> One thing I adore about github is it provides a legal audit trail of
> where the 
> code came from. While that proves nothing about whether contributions
> are stolen 
> or not, it provides a date stamp (like my registered copyright did),
> and if 
> stolen code does make its way into the code base, it can be precisely
> excised. 
> Github takes a great load off my mind.
[…]

Has there been case law in the USA that gives a Git log official status
as a record of history? I haven't done a detailed search here, but I am
not aware of any case law in the UK on this. Other jursidictions will
have their own rules obviously.

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Russel.
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