[boost] Copyright on docs code snippets

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-21 08:28:20

Several Boost developers who have been using John Maddock's helpful docs 
(http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/library-guidelines.html) to make 
their code more dll friendly have been propagating John's docs copyright 
into their source code. This because it is so easy to just cut-and-paste 
his code snippets. In some private email, John commented:

 >BTW I don't feel any strong reasons why my
 >copyright should propagate through to everyone that follows a set of
 >guidelines - it's not intended to be a virus ;-)  How about if I declare
 >the code snippets to be "public domain" would that help (I'm not sure
 >what the procedure for that is mind you)?

First, thanks to John for that! The code snippets are large enough that I 
felt uncomfortable copying them without adding his copyright.

As far as the docs go, How about adding the following to the license info 
at the bottom of the page:

"Code snippets in this document are hereby placed in the public domain and 
may be copied without attribution or copyright message."

Comments?

--Beman