Re: [boost] [inspect] Contents in XML <legalnotice> sections not checked for L & C issues?

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-22 10:49:15

Andreas Huber wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Andreas Huber wrote:
>>> Hi Rene
>>>
>>> It seems that the <legalnotice> sections in Boostbook xml files are
>>> not checked for L & C issues. Is there any chance that such a
>>> feature could be added to the inspect tool before 1.34 goes out?
>>> That would surely uncover many more L & C problems.
>> Could point out an example?
> 
> Sure, have a look at e.g.
> 
> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/libs/date_time/xmldoc/posix_time.xml
> 
> All by itself this file is ok, as there is a copyright notice in an XML 
> comment. However, the generated HTML page ...
> 
> http://www.boost.org/regression-logs/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/date_time/posix_time.html
> 
> ... only contains a copyright notice, license is absent. No inspect 
> failures are reported for the date_time library. IIUC, inspect could 
> detect this problem by checking the presence & contents of the 
> <legalnotice> section in the boostbook xml.

The inspect program checks the entire contents of the files. In this 
case the "Subject to the Boost Software License..." at the top is the 
license, so it's not absent. The visible license notice in this case 
<http://engineering.meta-comm.com/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/date_time.html> 
comes from the top xml file 
<http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/libs/date_time/xmldoc/date_time.xml>. 
So the problem isn't with the inspection program but with 
BoostBook+DocBook translation which does not include the license info 
throught the rest of the generated HTML files.

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