Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references

Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 14:14:21

On 15.09.2015 19:46, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Rene Rivera <grafikrobot <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> I suggest you stop this thread as it's not going to help anyone. The only
>> way to answer these questions to any satisfaction is to retain legal
>> counsel. Which is what we did to get the license and copyright guidelines
>> we have now. If you want to change the guidelines it might be more
>> beneficial to bring up the issues with the steering committee and the SFC.
>>
>
> Well, I am bring it up. Steering committee is free to discuss, respond or
> ignore. As it stands my source code either lying almost all the time, or
> missing copyright or I need to keep updating 700+ file all the times. Unless
> this changes, I am inclined to change disclaimer everywhere to "Copyright
> 2001 Boost.Test authors" and be done with that.

I suppose, you could do that, if all current copyright holders agree to 
that in written form and the "Boost.Test authors" is either a list of 
persons documented somewhere and bundled with the library, or a legal 
body that owns the copyright. Otherwise I feel such a change would be 
illegal and not fair in a common sense.

In any case, I wouldn't advise such changes without consulting a lawyer. 
Take note that authors live in different countries and Boost is an 
international project, so you'll have to abide the international law.