Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references

Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 19:40:40

On Wednesday 16 September 2015 01:35:00 Peter Dimov wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
> > I think Peter made a very good point that these "Boost.Test contributors"
> > has to be a legal entity, ...
> 
> No, I'm not saying that. It's reasonable to interpret "Boost.Test
> contributors" as a shorthand for a list of specific names who don't need to
> constitute a legal entity. It's basically a 'pointer' to the actual list of
> contributors that is presumably available on demand.

In that case I'm not sure how my John Doe example works. Does he receive the 
copyright over the code he did not submit by being included into the list of 
contributors?