Walter Bright via dmd-internals, el 23 de June a las 23:33 me escribiste: > > On 6/23/2014 9:00 PM, Steven Schveighoffer via dmd-internals wrote: > > > >A statement saying that any contributors must agree that they give > >permission for Digital Mars to change the license of their code to any > >future version of boost license would be sufficient and reasonable, IMO. > >Remember that if any issues ever arise with boost license, the boost project > >is sure to fix them, and then we can adopt that new license. > > > > > > LLVM doesn't require copyright assignment, but they admit on their > site that they are aware that implies the LLVM license can never > change. GCC requires copyright assignment for larger contributions.
As I said, that's for a different reason, to be able to change the license they just do this: "This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, EITHER VERSION 3 OF THE LICENSE, OR (AT YOUR OPTION) ANY LATER VERSION." (capitalization added by me :) > If the copyright holder agrees to such a clause, what rights do they > retain as copyright holder? Such open-ended clauses may also even be > invalid - I've never heard of one. Going with copyright assignment > is simple and direct. I don't care to try and break new legal ground > here. I don't care to risk the hard work of every contributor to D > by trying a novel legal theory. > > >By this same logic, we can lament the fact that we can't incorporate > >libmysql because we didn't get it's owner's permission to license under > >boost instead of GPL. It's not a fair comparison -- Oracle/Sun did not want > >to contribute to D, so why should we worry about that? > > Because we don't really care about libmysql's license. If it's license > becomes incompatible with D's goals, we'll just find another library. It > won't destroy D. We can even survive various modules in Phobos needing to be > rebooted over licensing issues. It'd be a lot harder to survive dmd being > holed below the waterline. > > > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, it's George. I got nothing to say. -- George Constanza, message in Jerry's answering machine _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
