[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[Walter Bright via dmd-internals]

On 6/23/2014 8:15 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Do you have a response for the existing precedents in which valuable work has 
> been wasted?
>
> More generally (and for everyone), and please don't take this the wrong way as 
> it comes from someone who knows next to nothing about this: I see there's 
> considerable discussion here; what is the larger issue that seems to go 
> unstated? It's entirely fine to want to maintain copyright of one's work, but 
> on the face of it OSS seems to be a poor vehicle for that.
>
>
> Andrei

I'd like to know that, too. What is the difficulty with copyright assignment? I 
can't address that if I don't know what bothers you and David about it.