Re: Compliance with Boost copyright and license guidelines

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-18 20:21:38

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, 18:55 Paul A Bristow via Boost, <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Prompted by some recent discussion of Boost license and copyright info by
> the Debian package team,
>
> [...]
>
> Now that the 1.71 release is out bar a little shouting, I wonder if we
> should focus on improving compliance for the next release?
>
> I’d like to propose
>
> 1 A boost/tools/inspect/develop branch to refine the inspect program a
> little and improve the documentation (I have done something on this already
> for my education and use).
>
> 2 Discussion of the bad results (zip attached) to try to find why there
> are so many reports and to decide what to do.
>
> 3 Encourage all authors to run inspect on their library locally and try to
> remedy the items missing.
>
> 4 I suspect that many libraries will have items missing but the authors
> are also missing.  So someone from the community maintenance team will need
> to take over and make some decisions on what to do.
> Often just providing a copyright claim from the obvious author and Boost
> license will suffice?
>
> 5 Try to improve the compliance with other guidelines.  For example. there
> are many libraries that are failing to prevent with min and max macros for
> what of a couple of brackets. Usually (std::numeric_limits<>::max)().  All
> these will trip up Windows users in a puzzling way.  Please can we just fix
> these?
>

+1

Boost Inspection Report
> Inspect version no 3.1.15
> Run Date: 08:44:19 UTC, Saturday 17 August 2019 Distributed under the
> Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
> (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
> Copyright Boost 2019
>
> boost-no-inspect
> Inspection from path "libs" including subfolders.
> Totals:
>   52355 files scanned
>   4351 directories scanned (including root)
>   3472 problems reported
>
>
> Problem counts:
>   1790 files missing Boost license info or having wrong reference text
>   1682 files missing copyright notice
>
> Worst Offenders:
> outcome 940
> metaparse 556
> polygon 228
> python 194
> beast 192
>
> Summary:
>   algorithm (4)
>   array (2)
>

FYI, I made an attempt a while ago to fix the array:
https://github.com/boostorg/array/pull/9

-- 
Mateusz Loskot, mateusz_at_[hidden]
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