Re: [text] Copyright notices

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-15 16:35:13

On 2020-06-15 19:19, Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:
> 
> 2. Some files have a copyright header which is not the Boost
> licence.  Example:
> https://github.com/tzlaine/text/blob/master/include/boost/text/transcode_algorithm.hpp 
> 
> 
> This one has a requirement that binary distribution includes the
> copyright notice, which is not a requirement of the Boost licence,
> and will be problematic for some users.
> 
> Are the only affected files the SIMD implementation, (c) Robert N
> Steagall?  If so, can this be disabled (by default?) by the user
> to avoid the copyright notice requirement?

I think the fact that Boost uses the Boost Software License is a 
valuable feature. Having differently licensed files complicates 
inclusion in the downstream projects.

In the particular case you referenced, it seems the license is 3-clause 
BSD. That license is incompatible with Boost license requirements:

- Must not require that the license appear with executables or other 
binary uses of the library.

https://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#License

I think, this issue should be blocking library acceptance.