[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[Walter Bright via dmd-internals]

On 6/23/2014 3:42 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> You don't need to deal with it in the future, because boost allows you
> to change to a more restrictive license if necessary.  eg We could
> change it to BSD or GPL _without_ needing copyright assignment.  This
> is only a problem if we want to remove restrictions, and there doesn't
> seem to be any point to doing that.

I don't know what issues may come up, hopefully none. But laws can and do 
change, and flaws may be found in Boost, such that the license needs to adapt 
with the times. Shutting the door on that seems to me to be akin to putting a 
"kill switch" on dmd.

>
> Also, AIUI we will not be able to change the license of phobos and
> druntime anyway, since there is no copyright assignment for those.
> We're 'stuck' with boost either way.
>

And that is a potential problem, too, but less of one than dmdfe itself. Worst 
case a module can be discarded and redone (like Tango XML).