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Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright and authorship notices
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-04 20:39:49


on Wed Jan 04 2012, Jens Müller <blog-AT-tessarakt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> what is the policy of adding a Copyright notice and entries to the
> author list when patching existing files?
>
> I found http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Ownership,
> but it is not completely helpful.

I don't think we have an official policy. My personal policy has always
been that I don't add myself as an author for bug fixes, but for any
"creative" work, I usually do.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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