Re: [boost] How do we handle copyrights here? (Fwd: blanket-permission.txt)

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-26 17:28:50

At 5:07 PM -0400 7/26/08, Daryle Walker wrote:
>I noticed that some of my code is showing up in the inspection 
>report.  Specifically, "boost/math/common_factor_rt.hpp" and a lot 
>of Boost.Rational.  When I looked at the former file, I remembered 
>why I never corrected those files before: I share the copyright for 
>those files with Paul Moore, and I've never been able to find him 
>again.
>(See my latest attempt below.)  Unless someone else here knows how 
>to contact him (if he's still alive), what do we do?  Do we 
>special-case those files to be skipped by the inspector?  Do we try 
>re-implementing the interface in those files so they won't contain 
>Paul's work?

In the short term, you can shut up the inspector report by putting 
"boostinspect:nolicense" into a comment in the file.

If you do that, I would suggest that you add an explanation about why 
you are doing this (your explanation above is sufficient, IMHO).

FYI, here are a list of files in the trunk that currently use this method:
        boost/python/detail/python22_fixed.h
        libs/iterator/doc/default.css
        libs/ptr_container/doc/default.css
        libs/python/doc/PyConDC_2003/default.css
        more/blanket-permission.txt
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