dhruva wrote:
I just hope we never lose the communities interest. Frankly, I personally would feel more comfortable if it is hosted on boost.org A privately held company hosting a WIKI based setup to get the community involved should not end up making it propitiatory and have a COPYRIGHT since it was hosted on their servers. We just need to be cautious.
Unless everybody contributing assigns their copyright to my company (which was never going to be asked for) then the company won't end up owning anything that it doesn't already own. Each contributor will retain copyright on what they contribute. What is really of question here though is what license contributors agree to by contributing. Personally I think that the descriptions will need to be fairly permissive, something like the Creative Commons attribution license (CC-by) and the code needs to be under something very permissive, something like an MIT or BSD license but without the need to attribute or include any copyright notices. People need to be able to copy the code into their own code base without needing to worry about any legal ramifications of doing so. Turning the code over to the public domain is probably closest. As for the community interest, I guess we will see whether it garners any traction or not once it is turned on. If a more official Boost organisation wishes to take on the site then we will provide the software and the data for that. Just to make this absolutely clear, my company's commercial interest in this is to promote its software, but the content of the site. As the software that runs the site is built with Boost it seems an appropriate way of doing it and giving something of use back to the Boost community.
I do appreciate the fact that someone has seriously come forward, it is a good step forward.
Thank you. I hope that I will get enough of it done in the next few hours to put it live. K