Re: [boost] copied boost files in other projects

Subject: Re: [boost] copied boost files in other projects
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-12 18:20:30

On 12/12/16 2:13 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> On 13/12/2016 05:15, Robert Ramey wrote:
>> On 12/11/16 6:47 AM, Steven Ross wrote:
>>
>>> On a related note, somebody asked me to add a new sort call to the
>>> Boost.Sort library, I told them we'd need to contact the author to get
>>> them
>>> to send us a copy with the Boost copyright, and then they told me they
>>> copied it and modified it, and sent it to me, and that was ok because it
>>> had an open-source license.  I assume that I should automatically reject
>>> any proposed new library contributions from that individual?
>>
>> The boost license is pretty unambiguous.  Anyone can use it for any
>> purpose as long as the original copyright notice is included.  Period.
>> There is not requirement for notification, permission or anything else.
>
> When the original work is Boost-licensed, sure.  But the situation
> described here is where the original work has a different license, and
> someone has just removed that and replaced it with a Boost one without
> asking the original author.

Right.  I got a little confused when I read the scenario and didn't 
realize that the code being submitted wasn't written by the submitter 
but rather a third person.

Robert Ramey