[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[H. S. Teoh via dmd-internals]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:17:55PM +0200, David Nadlinger via dmd-internals wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2014, at 22:05, Walter Bright via dmd-internals wrote:
> >Litigation works the other way, too. Someone could sue Digital Mars
> >over the code.
> 
> Are you suggesting that, when requiring copyright assignment, Digital
> Mars would in fact protect the contributors from lawsuits over
> copyright infringement? This is not the case. The original contributor
> of the piece of code could still be held liable by Digital Mars,
> because as part of signing the copyright transfer agreement they
> claimed that the code is theirs.
[...]

I think he's referring to a former contributor becoming disgruntled and
deciding to sue Digital Mars over the contributed code.


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