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Subject: Re: [boost] Legal problem with Stackoverflow contribution under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0" license
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-19 19:16:08


>> This causes legal problem.
>> Hope somebody can fix this.
>
> Niall, you committed this:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/thread/commit/04c53415fd0adc1921d419c54a1e5ec4b19917ea
>
> "Niall Douglas (s [underscore] sourceforge {at} nedprod [dot] com)
> committed on Jul 5, 2014"
>
> Have you already contacted the author(s) before committing it?

As I've already said on boost-steering regarding this issue, I feel the
code snippet in question falls under the fair use exemption. The commit
can be reverted if people feel strongly that this is not the case.

Niall

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