Subject: Re: [boost] Copyright-less licence references
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-15 03:24:39
Thijs (M.A.) van den Berg <thijs <at> sitmo.com> writes:
>
>
> >
> > I suggest we should drop "Copyright Joe Coder 20xx" from all our
files. My
> > reasons:
> >
> You are asking authors to give up copyright.
No, I am not. If anything I suggest to attribute copyright properly.
> There is no "we" that can decide that.
"We" are boost developers.
>
> > * I am never clear what this line really mean. Copyright Joe
> > Coder 2010 -
> > does this mean Joe has copyright up to 2010, starting 2010 or
> > only in 2010?
> > Should one keep updating these disclaimers every January?
>
> Shouldn't you first learn what it means before forming an
> opinion to change it?
Does it matter? My point is that it is confusing in general for anyone
looking at this line.
Gennadiy