Re: [boost] [Important For All Boost Contributors] BSL Status Update

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-24 21:42:01

On Jul 24, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
> I ran it on all of the directory names in libs, in current Boost CVS, 
> except for CVS, python, and serialization - the last two gave errors.

Thanks!

> * The following people ARE in blanket-permission.txt, but have used 
> these alternate names in Boost code.  Their names should be changed to 
> their canonical forms.  (And then the appropriate files should be 
> BSLed.)
>
> Doug Gregor

This one should now be fixed...

> * "Files that could be converted to the Boost Software License" should 
> be.  There are a lot of files there.

I'll see if I can come up with a program to do this automagically. We 
have to be _very_ careful with this, though.

> * Some non-BSL files display copyrights by:
>
> Boost org
> boost org
> It should be figured out who actually wrote these.  I don't think 
> "boost org" is a real organization.

I'll take care of this.

> * From what I've heard on the list, "William E Kempf" hasn't been seen 
> in quite some time.  He should be contacted.

If we could, we would.

> * The following organizations (or people with really, really weird 
> names) hold copyrights to non-BSL libraries.  They should be 
> contacted.
>
> Free Software Foundation Inc

They're not going to agree to the BSL, that's for sure :) This only 
affects the Graphviz parser in the BGL, which is due for a rewrite soon 
anyway.

> Indiana University

Looking into this...

> The Trustees of Indiana University

Same as above.

> University of Notre Dame

Also looking into this,

> uBLAS developers

I doubt this is a legal entity...

> * Why are new libraries, such as Boost Algorithm, being accepted 
> without the BSL?  At the very least, Boost could try to not move 
> backwards.

We should make this a requirement, I think.

> * Some files - boost/iterator_adaptors.hpp, a huge (all?) chunk of 
> boost/mpl, and lots of stuff in libs/config/test - have no 
> recognizable copyright holder.  That should be fixed.

Probably just a form of license not matched by one of the regexes in 
bcp. Easily fixed, with a little time investment.

> * Maybe bcp could add "Percent Converted" to the report?  It'd be nice 
> to see how many files have been converted to the BSL out of how many 
> files there are, total.

Sure, but it might be more useful to have that scorecard showing which 
libraries are completely under the BSL. Both are easy enough to 
implement.

        Doug