Hi, I suggest we should drop "Copyright Joe Coder 20xx" from all our files. My reasons: * git/svn history provides much better copyright attribution. Each developer has a copyright on lines authored. As it is these copyright disclaimers are very frequently wrong. * 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? * For libraries which are maintained by multiple developers and/or which were moved from one maintainer to another maintainer - these disclaimers either wrong or pain to maintain. * these are just a clutter with no real value IMO we should just keep licence reference and that's it: // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) Gennadiy