Re: [boost] Missing copyrights in confg generated files?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-20 10:38:38

> Who owns the copyright on generated files, such as the
> <boost-root>/libs/config/test/has_whatever.cpp files?
>
> Right now there is no copyright message in these files, but there is a
> message indicating they are covered by the Boost Software License.
>
> Seems like a file should be either both copyrighted and licensed, or
> neither copyrighted nor licensed.
>
> The theory being that something can't be licensed unless it is owned by
> someone. Perhaps John Maddock should be the copyright holder since he
wrote
> the generation program. But it seems like we are on shaky ground.
>
> Has anyone ever heard an opinion from a lawyer as regards generated files?

Nope, but it's a good question, I should have brought that up when we were
discussing the license.  There are a number of other places where this
occurs as well: the graph lib has some GNU copyright lexer-produced files,
and mpl has some pre-processed files with a similar problem to the config
files.

John