DMD Copyright string

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 22/04/15 04:42, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Colin"  wrote in message news:sbafvqyzjweacrhwdpmo at forum.dlang.org...
>> I notice when you run dmd with no args, it will print:
>> DMD64 D Compiler v2.067.0
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2014 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright
>>
>>
>> Surely that's meant to be 2015?
>> Walter should prob fix that. Someone could steal D!
>
> That's not how copyright works.

Unfortunately, you are right. But that's only because the copyright 
system in the USA is completely broken.

It used to work like that. Works that carried no copyright notice used 
to be automatically public domain, and the copyright notice start would 
dictate when the a work of art would fall into the public domain, some 
20 years later.

Under that law, the changes done in 2015 would fall into the public 
domain one year early, around 2034.

Except, as you pointed out, that's not how copyright now works. The 
copyright for DMD would only expire 95 years after Walter dies, 
regardless of what the copyright notice says.

Shachar