On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:17:55PM +0200, David Nadlinger via dmd-internals wrote: > On 24 Jun 2014, at 22:05, Walter Bright via dmd-internals wrote: > >Litigation works the other way, too. Someone could sue Digital Mars > >over the code. > > Are you suggesting that, when requiring copyright assignment, Digital > Mars would in fact protect the contributors from lawsuits over > copyright infringement? This is not the case. The original contributor > of the piece of code could still be held liable by Digital Mars, > because as part of signing the copyright transfer agreement they > claimed that the code is theirs. [...]
I think he's referring to a former contributor becoming disgruntled and deciding to sue Digital Mars over the contributed code. T -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- Michael B. Allen _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
