Re: [Boost-users] Crediting the Work of Others

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Crediting the Work of Others
From: Bill Buklis (boostusr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-04 14:18:47

On 2/1/2013 1:33 PM, Algocoders wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
>
>>
>> It has come to my attention that this book appears to use the work of
>> others without attribution.  I'd like to give the authors a chance to
>> explain why that appearance is false.  From what you can see in
>> Amazon's limited preview of the book, one can find numerous instances of
>> code lifted from Andrew Sutton's "origin" library.
>> Some of the data structures have been renamed or had the case changed.
>> Most of the duplication of Origin code comes in Chapter 7 in that
>> book. There appear to be no references to Origin in that chapter
>> (based on searching through the book in Amazon).
>>
>> The IndirectlyCopyable text includes unsourced quotes directly from
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3351.pdf
>> without quotation, and the concepts* diagrams are taken from the same
>> document.  Is there an attribution on the previous page that we can't see
>> from Amazon's limited preview?
> Crediting the work of others have been done in the book as
> mentioned in the links below:
> Preface :
> http://www.algocoders.com/sites/default/files/preface_foa_revised.pdf
> Acknowledgement :
> http://www/algocoders.com/sites/default/files/acknowledgement_foa.pdf
> Table of Contents :
> http://www.algocoders.com/sites/default/files/toc_foa_revised.pdf
>
> Chapter 3 :
> http://www.algocoders.com/sites/default/files/chapter3_foa.pdf
> Chapter 11 :
> http://www.algocoders.com/sites/default/files/chapter11_foa.pdf
>
> We have avoided repetitive mention of original sources in
> respective chapters to let not the content be littered with
> these details again.
> Please let us know if we need to attribute in respective
> chapters too, we would like to work on it.
> Your feedback will be really helpful to guide us as a corrective measure.
>
> Looking forward for suggestions,
>
> Cheers,
> Algocoders
>

Only the last link for Chapter 11 actually works and there aren't any 
acknowledgements presented in that pdf.

-- 
Bill