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: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-21 12:47:26

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:41 AM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 09:06, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>> I could understand that you could have good reasons to don't change. You
>> always have good reasons.
>
> FYI Jon Kalb reached out to the author of the SO snippet in question and
> has acquired his permission for the snippet to be licensed under the
> Boost licence.
>
> He also has mentioned that it has a race condition. Bugs I am happy to
> fix. Expect a PR shortly.

If Andrey has a solution (and apparently a PR already) that can
resolve this by eliminating the code Niall borrowed from
Stackoverflow, I'd prefer if Vicente adopted Andrey's solution
instead.

My thanks to Andrey for acting so quickly.

Glen