On 05/28/2016 08:50 PM, Seb wrote: > One thing that confused me a lot in the beginning, is that every Phobos > module has it's own copyright - I am not a lawyer, but it sounded for me > pretty weird that in theory I could get sued by a lot of Oracle-like > patent trolls. > I imagine the same effect also for companies when they read a different > copyright on every module in Phobos. > > Now that D foundation finally got its own page [1], it's probably time > to start this dicussion. > Is it safe to assume that the entire Phobos source code (except for the > external C modules), belongs to the D foundation? > > Ping @WalterBright, @andralex & people with legal experience. > > [1] https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1311
Ideally not a single line of code should be accepted into Phobos without explicit copyright transfer to D Foundation. However, situation is so messy already any small attempts to clean it up make no difference - it would need some major paperwork. >From a practical point of view though, you (as a Phobos user) are guarded from abuse by Boost license.
