Copyright for Phobos to D Foundation

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On 05/28/2016 08:50 PM, Seb 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.
> 
> Now that D foundation finally got its own page [1], it's probably time
> to start this dicussion.
> Is it safe to assume that the entire Phobos source code (except for the
> external C modules), belongs to the D foundation?
> 
> Ping @WalterBright, @andralex & people with legal experience.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1311

Ideally not a single line of code should be accepted into Phobos without
explicit copyright transfer to D Foundation. However, situation is so
messy already any small attempts to clean it up make no difference - it
would need some major paperwork.

>From a practical point of view though, you (as a Phobos user) are
guarded from abuse by Boost license.