[D-runtime] druntime license and copypasta bugs

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Mon Sep 5 10:39:46 PDT 2011


On Sep 3, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Saturday, September 03, 2011 13:47:53 Sean Kelly wrote:
>> For runtime and Phobos I think ts always the original author.  Not so with
>> GCC code though, for example.
> 
> Grepping Phobos, it's a mixture. Quite a few list Digital Mars. Some are 
> listed as copyrighted "by authors." Others list specific people. It does make 
> me wonder if we should have some sort of official policy on it.

I think there must be some identifiable copyright holder, though since everything is under the Boost license I don't think it's necessary for everyone to sign rights to Digital Mars or anything like that.


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