On Thursday, February 23, 2017 02:36:26 Jonathan M. Wilbur via phobos wrote: > 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."
It looks like someone going by the username Greenify added that bit back in August. I have no idea who that is or where they got the idea that copyright assignment was a requirement. - Jonathan M Davis _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
