[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[Steven Schveighoffer via dmd-internals]

I like the CLA option, this seems like what I was describing.

As far as copyright assignment, this happens all the time in for-hire situations. Any code I develop for hire (or for instance, any music someone writes or books under contract) are assigned to the employer. I don't think the actual content creator retains any say in what can happen with that material. If a company were to purchase the copyrights to a piece of software or content, I would expect the original owner to have to relinquish all rights.

But maybe this is a different situation, and this doesn't apply. Can two people who have the exact same code hold separate and equally powerful copyrights on said code?

Either way, that situation seems more hairy to me than CLA option.

-Steve

On Jun 24, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Daniel Murphy via dmd-internals <dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I would think that Steven owns the copy in dcollections and Digital Mars owns the copy in Phobos.
>> 
>> I think Walter has done something similar to allow GDC to be included in GCC.
>> 
> 
> I'm not sure.
> 
> I did find this: http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html
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