Re: [boost] Re: [regression] New Inspection Report -- License checks...

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-19 18:03:52

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:36:29 -0400, David Abrahams wrote
> > Thanks that's nice.  I've been thinking about this more.  You will notice all
> > the 'issues' in date-time amount to code in the examples subtree and
> > documentation.  I've been resisting cluttering example code with copyright and
> > licensing stuff.  But now I'm thinking that this can just be tagged onto the
> > bottom.  I suppose docs are pretty much the same.
> 
> Ah, no, I don't think so.  I'm pretty sure license/copyright info
> needs to go near the top of files.  Uniformity is the name of the 
> game where making lawyers comfortable is concerned.

Well, I hate to get ornery, but we aren't here to serve the lawyers.  I'm
certain that legally it can go anywhere in the file.  When the
license/copyright is at the top it just interferes with the documentation. 
Remember I'm not talking about source files in the library -- I'm talking
about stuff in the example subtree that winds up in the documentation.  And if
the lawyers can't figure out how to use grep then too bad -- maybe they could
hire one of us poor programmers to write a program to help them sort it out...

Jeff