[boost] Re: Legal issues and licensing -- again

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-10 09:25:24

Terje Slettebø wrote:
[...]
> I seem to have missed your point. ....

The point is that(*) unless you really want to use copyright to "prevent 
other developers abusing the code in a non-free way" or something like 
that, there's just no rational reason whatsoever to use copyrights and 
licensing... well, except somewhat childish "you-shall-give-me-a-credit", 
sheesh. Just require all boost submissions/contributions to be released 
into the public domain and be done with it, really.

regards,
alexander.

(*) "corporate" view w.r.t. patent issues/etc.-IP stuff and liabilities 
    aside for a moment.

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