Copyright for Phobos to D Foundation

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 29/05/2016 10:54 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-05-28 at 17:50 +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> One thing that confused me a lot in the beginning, is that every
>> Phobos module has it's own copyright - I am not a lawyer, but it
>> sounded for me pretty weird that in theory I could get sued by a
>> lot of Oracle-like patent trolls.
>> I imagine the same effect also for companies when they read a
>> different copyright on every module in Phobos.
>
> I am not sure of the situation with GDC since the GCC folk are involved
> with that – Iain may be able to take a view on this. Also I am not
> totally sure of the LDC situation. However I think it would be a very
> good idea if DMD, LDC, GDC, Phobos, druntime, and Dub and the
> repository were all copyright the D Foundation, and that all
> contributions had a copyright share or transfer.
>
> Contribution agreements are notoriously complicated, cf. the situation
> over the Canonical one. However, it is not beyond the bounds of
> possibility that there is lawyer with licence to operate in the
> jurisdiction that the D Foundation is incorporated in who could draw up
> a suitable copyright share/transfer agreement that can be digitally
> signed. This agreement would then be required for any new
> contributions. Dealing with retrospective can be difficult but not
> impossible.
>
> Contribution agreements sometimes cause a lot of grief, cf. the
> original Gradle one as well as the aforementioned Canonical one.
> However, it can be done and to great effect. The benefit of getting
> over the problems so as to allow all ownership to at least include D
> Foundation is unquantifiable per se, but anecdotally is very great.
> Having a clear central owner of a technology gives organizations
> confidence that the technology is not going away. I know D has been
> around over a decade and isn't going away, but organizations (and their
> lawyers) do not think that way. They want a clear central organization
> as owner with responsibility. I have seen this with Apache Groovy and
> SCons over the years.

Uninstall dmd and have ldc installed. Hey dub defaults to ldc!
With a little bit of shell magic no need to uninstall and is easy to 
work with.