<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greenify is Sebastian.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We definitely have not assigned copyright to the D language foundation for Phobos. It was a requirement for DMD front end, not for any libraries. The wiki should be reverted.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is an archived discussion we had at the time:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://forum.dlang.org/post/C6F4A202-EFD6-44E1-8780-5AB543BB382E@klickverbot.at" class="">http://forum.dlang.org/post/C6F4A202-EFD6-44E1-8780-5AB543BB382E@klickverbot.at</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To answer the original question, you need a boost license to get something into Phobos. I am not a lawyer, but I *believe* the boost license would satisfy the requirements of the MIT license. So I think you could just use it. But I’m not 100% sure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Separately, my opinion is that the library in question does not need to go into phobos. It belongs in <a href="http://code.dlang.org" class="">code.dlang.org</a>. Is it not possible to use it from there?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Steve</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 24, 2017, at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Wilzbach via phobos <<a href="mailto:phobos@puremagic.com" class="">phobos@puremagic.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2017-02-23 18:53, Jonathan M. Wilbur via phobos wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 04:17:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">It looks like someone going by the username Greenify added that bit back in August. I have no idea who that is or where they got the idea that copyright assignment was a requirement.<br class="">- Jonathan M Davis<br class=""></blockquote>Yeah, I think Greenify was mistaken. On the "Get Involved" page:<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I am not so sure about this.<br class="">I think this just hasn't be properly communicated yet, see for example:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/README.md" class="">https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/README.md</a><br class="">https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/f8707eaa2a31888ca542f510907297d70c856c41<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">phobos mailing list<br class="">phobos@puremagic.com<br class="">http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos<br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">phobos mailing list<br class="">phobos@puremagic.com<br class="">http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>