[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals]

On 6/24/14, 7:59 AM, Steven Schveighoffer via dmd-internals wrote:
>> What if converting/relicensing it later to Boost 2.0 or some other
>> license is in the best interest of D, and due to some technicality
>> we'd need approval of all copyright holders? I don't know much
>> about copyright law, but I think we can all agree it's complicated
>> and prone to all sorts of loopholes. We can trust Walter to act in
>> the best interest of D now and in the future; the alternative on
>> the table is to trust instead an open union of persons.
>
> Much of these arguments seem to stem from ignorance and fear of the
> future. At some point, I think we need to analyze what actually can
> happen rather than assuming what can.
>
> I am not a lawyer, maybe we should involve one.

This is exactly the kind of overhead we're trying to avoid in the first 
place. Looks like you want to transform a triviality into an interesting 
legal endeavor, and on someone else's money. -- Andrei