[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[David Nadlinger via dmd-internals]

On 24 Jun 2014, at 22:05, Walter Bright via dmd-internals wrote:
> Litigation works the other way, too. Someone could sue Digital Mars 
> over the code.

Are you suggesting that, when requiring copyright assignment, Digital 
Mars would in fact protect the contributors from lawsuits over copyright 
infringement? This is not the case. The original contributor of the 
piece of code could still be held liable by Digital Mars, because as 
part of signing the copyright transfer agreement they claimed that the 
code is theirs.

David