Re: Making copyright holders easier to parse

From: pbristow_at_[hidden]
Date: 2019-08-05 09:37:32

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost <boost-bounces_at_[hidden]> On Behalf Of Hans Dembinski via
> Boost
> Sent: 5 August 2019 08:57
> To: Boost Devs <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Cc: Hans Dembinski <hans.dembinski_at_[hidden]>; Bo Persson <bo_at_bo-
> persson.se>
> Subject: Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse
> 
> 
> > On 27. Jul 2019, at 06:51, Bo Persson via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like a good idea.
> >
> > Old US copyright laws specifically mention "Copyright" and "Copr." as proper
> forms, but says nothing about "Copyright:".
> >
> > Wouldn't want to stuble on such a technicality, would we?  :-)
> >
> >
> >> Although I'm all for making the attributions and licensing consistent
> >> :-)
> >
> > Right.
> 
> The best proposal I have seen in this thread is to consistently apply the template
> from https://www.boost.org/users/license.html everywhere. If it is consistently
> applied, it is easy to parse automatically, even if the format is not particularly
> parser-friendly.
> 
> As was said before, we need a new check in the Boost test matrix
> https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html
> to enforce consistency, since the inspection reports
> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/docs-inspect-develop.html
> are currently not enforced.
> 
> License and copyright errors are by far the most common problems found by the
> inspection tool, so by adding a check to the test matrix we could clean that up a
> lot.

+1

The inspect tool is neglected.

It can (and should) be run *locally* by each library maintainer.

Cd to boost/libs/somelibrary >inspect > inspect.html

And inspect the file written called inspect.html - or whatever you called it.

(and then delete after reading(and correcting 'transgressions' ) to avoid inspect.html being flagged as a dodgy file 😉

Paul