Regarding: import "foo.h";

[Walter Bright]

On 7/17/2013 4:18 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 23:10:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/17/2013 4:01 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> Why even bother starting this thread?
>>
>> Because the topic comes up now and then.
>
> I couldn't imagine anyone doing a significant amount of work only to have their
> work marked with a DigitalMars & Symantec stamp.

Symantec would not automatically own any derived work, they would only own the 
original.

As for DM, yes, it'd be necessary to assign copyright to DM. Otherwise, having 
source files with a dozen different copyrights on various lines of code in it is 
completely impractical. Tango got into difficulty, for example, because various 
people owned various copyrights in it, meaning that the license could not be 
changed as it was hard to reach them all, let alone get any sort of consensus 
agreement.

These kinds of issues are, of course, why Phobos is Boost licensed.

And lastly, the use of github ensures that contributors get credit for their 
work regardless of license/copyright issues. It's just one of the things that 
makes github such a great collaborative tool for us.