[D-runtime] druntime license and copypasta bugs

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Sep 3 11:31:31 PDT 2011


On Friday, September 02, 2011 10:40:31 Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > Actually, it doesn't even need to be that verbose.
> > 
> > /**
> > * The runtime module exposes information specific to the D runtime code.
> > *
> > * Copyright: Copyright 2005 - 2011
> > * License: $(WEB www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0).
> > * Authors: Sean Kelly
> > * Source: $(DRUNTIMESRC core/_runtime.d)
> > */
> 
> The copyright owner's name must be in the copyright line.  A module may have
> multiple authors, and it's possible (though unlikely) that none of those
> authors are the copyright owner.

That's easy enough to fix, but who's the copyright owner if not the authors? 
Digital Mars?

- Jonathan M Davis


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