Re: [boost] Company copyright release examples

Subject: Re: [boost] Company copyright release examples
From: Brendon Costa (brendon.j.costa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-07 16:15:03

Thanks for the response.

By the limited response I guess no one has had to get one of these
disclaimers before for boost.

I am proposing to use the following which is basically the GNU one you
linked to:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the "Boost.GAL
C++ Library" (which provides a library of tools for audio representation,
processing and IO) written by Brendon Costa.

<signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1989
Moe Ghoul, President of Vice

Do you think this is suitable?

I wanted to make the exemption more generic to cover the entire Boost C++
Libraries so I could contribute to other boost projects as necessary,
however I am Not A Lawyer and a lot of things in the above broke attempting
that. For example:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the "Boost C++
Libraries" (which provide assorted libraries for use in C++ coding).

<signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1989
Moe Ghoul, President of Vice

* I would have to remove the "written by" as I did not write all the Boost
Libraries (Which I think this exemption needs to have my name in it
somewhere)
* The description is redundant really here "which provide assorted
libraries for use in C++ coding"

On Monday, 6 May 2013, John Bytheway wrote:

> On 2013-05-05 21:09, Brendon Costa wrote:
> > I am looking into asking the company I work at for an official written
> > "release" on the copyright for work I with to contribute to boost as per
> > the description at:
> >
> > http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html
> >
> > I will be developing this in my own time outside of work hours but I will
> > need this release due to clauses in my contract and the relationship that
> > the proposed library would have to my normal work.
> >
> > Are there any examples of what this release should look like for boost to
> > accept it?
> >
> > I think having a sample release available on the page I linked to above
> > would be really useful.
>
> I'm not sure about the Boost requirements, but there's an example for
> GNU here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>
> John Bytheway
>
>
>
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