Copyright for Phobos to D Foundation

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 18:30:03 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 18:11:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> Copyright is extremely under-reported for Phobos, in my 
>> experience -- authors of significant components of modules do 
>> not necessarily add their name to the copyright list or even 
>> the author list.
>
> Yes that's a huge problem. I tried to tackle this with this
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1307
>
> It's currently pending, so make noise if you find this useful 
> too ;-)

Er ... not that I wish to dampen your enthusiasm, but don't you 
have another project to be working on? ;-)

Specifically on that PR: I think it's problematic to try 
auto-adding all contributors to modules, because author (and 
copyright) credits should generally be given for _significant_ 
contributions -- authoring functions and data structures, etc. -- 
not for minor tweaks and fixes.

Historically with Phobos, I think there's an extent to which 
adding one's name to the author list was also taken as an 
indication of being willing to take some level of active 
maintenance duty for its contents.  (I don't personally agree 
with that idea, but it was mentioned to me at a point where I was 
adding my name to the authors list of a module.)