On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:18:34 UTC, default0 wrote:
I have no idea how licensing would work in that regard but
considering that DMDs backend is actively maintained and may
eventually even be ported to D, wouldn't it at some point
differ enough from Symantecs "original" backend to simply call
the DMD backend its own thing?
Or are all the changes to the DMD backend simply changes to
Symantecs backend period?
Then again even if that'd legally be fine after some point,
someone would have to make the judgement call and that seems
like a potentially large legal risk, so I guess even if it'd
work that way it would be an unrealistic step.
Copyright law's answer to the Ship of Theseus paradox is that
it's the same ship (i.e. derivative works are still covered under
the original copyright).
