Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references

Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 03:24:39

Thijs (M.A.) van den Berg <thijs <at> sitmo.com> writes:

> 
> 
> > 
> > I suggest we should drop "Copyright Joe Coder 20xx" from all our 
files. My 
> > reasons:
> > 
> You are asking authors to give up copyright. 

No, I am not. If anything I suggest to attribute copyright properly.

> There is no "we" that can decide that.

"We" are boost developers.

> 
> > * I am never clear what this line really mean. Copyright Joe 
> > Coder 2010 - 
> > does this mean Joe has copyright up to 2010, starting 2010 or 
> > only in 2010?
> > Should one keep updating these disclaimers every January?
> 
> Shouldn't you first learn what it means before forming an 
> opinion to change it?

Does it matter? My point is that it is confusing in general for anyone 
looking at this line.

Gennadiy