Re: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library]

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-10 15:51:33

At 11:34 AM 8/9/2003, brock wrote:
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
 >To: "Boost mailing list" <boost_at_[hidden]>; "'Boost mailing list'"
 ><boost_at_[hidden]>
 >Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:31 AM
 >Subject: RE: [boost] Re: UI++ [was: GUI sublanguage; Re: Re: Re: Re:
 >GUI/GDI
 >template library]
 >
 >
 >> At 09:27 AM 8/8/2003, Brock Peabody wrote:
 >>
 >>  >...  I took the library from work code ...
 >>
 >> Brock,
 >>
 >> Do you have formal permission from the library's owner to do that?
 >> Presumably the code is owned or licensed by your employer.
 >
 >I don't intend for the library to be part of boost, just an example 
people
 >could play with.  We're going to start from scratch for Notus.
 >
 >I'm a manager and I wrote all the code I posted.  My boss, who is a VP,
 >thinks it's great.  I don't know who else I would need to ask.  What do 
you
 >think?

Well, a Vice-President is normally an officer of the corporation, so can 
give permission. I'm not quite sure "thinks it's great" is what a lawyer 
would call "permission". To protect yourself, you might want to be sure the 
VP understands that you have posted an excerpt from some code owned by the 
company.

--Beman