Copyright for Phobos to D Foundation

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 10:54:34 UTC, Russel Winder 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.
>

Licensing the common parts of the frontend and library as under 
the D Foundation should be no problem.  Walter may have to let 
the FSF know though incase a clause needs changing in the 
copyright assignments.