Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references

Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 07:30:37

Sorry but it ain't broke, so let's not fix it.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gennadiy Rozental
> Sent: 15 September 2015 06:45
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I suggest we should drop "Copyright Joe Coder 20xx" from all our files. My
> reasons:
> 
> * git/svn history provides much better copyright attribution. Each developer has a copyright on
lines
> authored. As it is these copyright disclaimers are very frequently wrong.
> 
> * I am never clear what this line really mean. Copyright Joe Coder 2010 - does this mean Joe has
> copyright up to 2010, starting 2010 or only in 2010?
> Should one keep updating these disclaimers every January?
> 
> * For libraries which are maintained by multiple developers and/or which were moved from one
> maintainer to another maintainer - these disclaimers either wrong or pain to maintain.
> 
> * these are just a clutter with no real value
> 
> IMO we should just keep licence reference and that's it:
> 
> //  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
> //  (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at //  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
> 
> Gennadiy
> 
> 
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