Re: [boost] What to do about non-Boost Licence files?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-07 21:21:48

John Maddock wrote:
> The Math library has a few files not under the Boost Licence:
>
 >...
> 
> libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/svgmath.xml: *C*, *L*
> libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/xep.xml: *C*, *L*
> 
> These two files are examples of configuration files required to build the
> PDF documentation (respectively SVGMath generates SVG graphics from MathML
> and XEP is the FO processor we've been using - it needs to embed some fonts
> in order to correctly display the equations).  These files are not and can
> never be under the Boost licence.  Originally I was going to embed them in
> the docs ("if you edit these files edit them like this" etc...), but
> correctly escaping XML inside quickbook proved rather troublesome :-(

For files that legitimately don't contain an copyright or aren't the 
Boost license, when possible embed:

      "boostinspect: nocopyright"
      "boostinspect: nocopyright, nolicense"
      "boostinspect: nolicense"

as appropriate. That will stop the inspect program from flagging the file.

--Beman