Re: [boost] [gsoc][student] Proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc][student] Proposal
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-19 14:34:56

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 14:21, Joseph Gauterin
<joseph.gauterin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> You're proposal has significant overlap with Crypto++ (public domain).
> You might want to investigate some sort of code sharing, or at least
> have a look at how they've done things.
>

Given that it's apparently not possible in some legal systems to put
code into the public domain[1], I'd be wary of the actual legality of
that, since the files themselves (such as [2]) don't contain a
license, just text such as "Both are in the public domain", which is a
false statement, not a license.

[1] http://rosenlaw.com/lj16.htm
[2] http://cryptopp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cryptopp/trunk/c5/sha.cpp?revision=457&view=markup