Re: [boost] Legal problem with Stackoverflow contribution under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0" license

Subject: Re: [boost] Legal problem with Stackoverflow contribution under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0" license
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-19 19:58:34

On 02/19/18 22:50, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Niall Douglas wrote:
> 
>> As I've already said on boost-steering regarding this issue, I feel 
>> the code snippet in question falls under the fair use exemption.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer but...
> 
> Better to rewrite this from scratch in terms of boost::atomic_uint64_t 
> IMO. The algorithm is straightforward.

+1

FWIW, there is already an implementation in Boost.Log which could be 
copied into Boost.Thread:

https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/develop/src/timestamp.cpp#L66