Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references

Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 11:54:10

On 15.09.2015 17:06, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 15 September 2015 at 09:32, Filip Konvička wrote:
>> I think removing the copyright notice would not deprive anyone of their
>> rights, and probably is an allowed modification under the Boost Software
>> License (whereas removing the BSL notice is not).
>
> I disagree, the BSL specifically mentions the copyright notices must be present:
>
> "The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
> the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
> must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
> all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
> works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
> a source language processor."
>
> It doesn't say they must be in the source code itself, but if you
> separated them how could you ensure the notices appear in derivative
> works, such as a subset of Boost headers copied into someone else's
> project?

AFAIU, retaining copyright notices is responsibility of the one who 
creates the derivative work. So technically it is enough to have a 
separate file(s) with the license and copyright holders bundled together 
with the source code.