Re: Making copyright holders easier to parse

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-05 11:33:36

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:57 AM Hans Dembinski via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>

Maybe.. It should be easy though. It just takes someone to add such a check
to <
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/blob/develop/status/boost_check_library.py
>.

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