On 3 October 2017 at 23:36, Joseph Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Jeff Law wrote: > >> /* Copyright (c) 2010-2014 by Digital Mars >> * All Rights Reserved, written by Walter Bright >> * http://www.digitalmars.com >> * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. >> * (See accompanying file LICENSE or copy at >> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) >> >> If the code was assigned to the FSF in 2011, then the FSF would have >> ownership of the code. And the FSF would be the only entity that could >> change the license (which according to your message changed to Boost in >> 2014). So something seems wrong here. > > The standard FSF assignment would allow the contributor to distribute > their own code under such terms as they see fit. >
Walter, would you mind clarifying details of your assignment? Was it a standard assignment? Did you request for any amendments? Jeff, I'm no legal, so I can't comment on it. Maybe there's someone from the FSF who be able to confirm? I'll cc in Andrei as well, so the D language foundation is in on this. Regards, Iain.
