[dmd-internals] DMD copyright assignment

[David Nadlinger via dmd-internals]

On 25 Jun 2014, at 0:55, Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals wrote:
> What seems pointless to me is this long and protracted discussion 
> around... around what? What or whom are we talking about protecting 
> here? It's not a practical matter, and it's not a matter of 
> principles. If protecting the copyright of one's work is high on one's 
> list of priorities, OSS is not the best place to be.
>
> Crap has happened before, among reasonable people, and in ways that 
> had not been predicted. We don't have money. We don't have lawyers. We 
> don't want to spend time analyzing, projecting, estimating, or 
> speculating. We want to keep things simple and save everybody involved 
> complications while keeping everything as open as possible. This very 
> discussion is a huge waste of time wanking over nothing. What the heck 
> are we even _talking_ about, folks?

You know what's funny about this, Andrei?

I don't know whether you realize it or not, but your message could be 
used equally well _against_ requiring copyright assignment.

To put it another way, if you don't think it's worth the discussion, 
let's go the path of least resistance, to continue what we are doing and 
not require copyright assignment.

David