On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 12:10:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 07:09:23 Jonathan M. Wilbur via
phobos wrote:
The problem is that his code is copyrighted under his name
using the MIT license, yet, according to the D Wiki, you must
turn over the copyright to the D Language Foundation if you
wish to submit to Phobos.
Where in the wiki did you read this? This is the first that
I've ever heard of it. I think that there was some kind of
turning over of copyright that was required in dmd for getting
gdc into gcc proper, and IIRC, there was a fair bit of
complaining about that. Regardless, the code in Phobos is all
copyrighted by individual authors. The key thing is that it
needs to be licensed under Boost. So, if code exists under a
different license, you'll need permission to get it relicensed
under the Boost license.
- Jonathan M Davis
Hey Jonathan, that's good to hear. That probably makes things a
lot easier both for contributors and the D Language Foundation!
As for where I read it:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Create_a_pull_request
"Please note that all contributions to DMD frontend, DMD backend,
Druntime, Phobos, or the official tools require that the
copyright to that code be assigned to the D Language Foundation."
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