Re: Making copyright holders easier to parse

From: pbristow_at_[hidden]
Date: 2019-07-27 09:14:16

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> From: Boost <boost-bounces_at_[hidden]> On Behalf Of Antony Polukhin via
> Boost
> Sent: 27 July 2019 05:46
> To: boost_at_[hidden] List <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Cc: Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]>
> Subject: Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse
> 
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 04:44 Giovanni Mascellani via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> <...>
> 
> > My question is: are you interested in this kind of patches? Of course
> > I would still go through the ordinary patch submission procedure. I am
> > just asking if this kind of patches would be well received or not.
> >
> 
> I'd be glad to merge such patches. Many thanks in advance!
> 
> BTW, we'll have to update one of our static analysis tools to make sure that all
> the files have the right copyright notice format.

We already have our inspect tool

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/tools/inspect/

(Although we don't make as much use of it as we should and we ought to be checking it more carefully and repairing any copyright omissions).

This should (and I think does) ensure that there is a copyright claim and Bost license text/link for every file.

And we could change it to enforce a uniform content (at a significant price of a big churn of file changes and big rebuilds - Boost is BIG).

Is it really necessary to collect all the individual copyright owners names?

Can't you just record as  a 'Member of Boost'?

Just checking 😉

Paul

Paul A. Bristow
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