[boost] Re: Announcing a New C++ Zine

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-12 13:53:49

David Abrahams wrote:
[...]
> last resort, but it would mean re-creating the
> threads library from scratch, a nontrivial undertaking.

Boost.Thread Clean Room Contest. Seriously, you seem to grossly 
overestimate software copyright protection (especially for thin 
layers like Boost.Thread taken in isolation).

http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise24.html

<quote>

Elements are filtered out of consideration on the basis of broad 
criteria, including:

  - The element's expression was dictated by reasons of efficiency, 
    such as when it is the best way of performing a particular 
    function.

  - The element's expression was dictated by external factors, such 
    as using an existing file format or interoperating with another 
    program.

  - The element's expression is a conventional way of writing 
    something in the particular programming language or machine 
    running the program.

  - The element, at the particular level of abstraction, is an 
    unprotectable process and not protectable expression.

  - The element is taken from the public domain or is an 
    unprotectable fact.

Any protection for elements dictated by efficiency or external 
factors or processes must come from patents or trade secrets, if 
at all, and not from copyright.

</quote>

Hth.

regards,
alexander.