Re: [text] Copyright notices

From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-15 19:30:59

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 11:35, Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, also for libraries outside of Boost (some obviously by ml'ers), I
always like to see with a Boost License (or MIT).

degski