Re: [boost] Company copyright release examples

Subject: Re: [boost] Company copyright release examples
From: Bo Persson (bop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-07 17:48:10

Brendon Costa skrev 2013-05-07 22:15:
> 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"
>

I'm not a lawyer either, but if I were your manager I wouldn't sign a 
general release form for "assorted libraries".  :-)

Who decides what is part of a library and what is part of your company's 
core product (assuming you write code there as well).

Bo Persson